Stress Makes quick Dental porous

mental and psychiatric conditions can also affect oral health. A person with mental health problems alias stress three times more at risk of teeth and six times more prone to tooth loss.

Scientists from the University of Queensland unveil it after analyzing the results of 14 studies conducted in the last 20 years. Almost all show a consistent relationship between the risk of tooth with mental health.

Of the approximately 2,784 participants involved in the study, the kinds of psychiatric problems shown to increase the risk of missing or lost all his teeth up to 3.4-fold. While the risk of cavities and dates partly increased by 6.2-fold.

People with

mental health problems in the form of bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and dementia are more prone to lose some teeth due date. This implies a bottom of the doctors who treat patients like this bharus give attention to the dental health of the mouth.

According to Prof Steve Kesley who led the study, there are some things that make people more susceptible to stress teeth missing. The first factor is the lack of opportunities for patients to care for and maintain oral hygiene.

Various psychiatric problems also related to the issue of residence, in the sense that tend not stand being at home. Because rarely return, then those less stress had time to give more attention to the cleanliness of teeth.

Other factors are also influential are the side effects of treatment, as some antidepressant drugs can suppress the production of saliva. If saliva production is reduced, the health condition of the teeth also decreased so easily porous and date.

"They also tend to not want to see a dentist because of fear of the treatment. It could also be as concerned with costs that can make added stress," said Prof. Kisley in a report in the British Journal of Psychiatry sperti quoted Medicalnewstoday,

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