How can bad dental health cause heart disease?
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Remember, all blood in your body flows to one place, the heart. All blood has to go through the lungs and be oxygenated and then go through the heart to be pumped out to the rest of the body. If you have any bacteria from a diseased tooth that gets into your blood system, it all goes back to the same place, the heart. It’s the same reason people can die from cardiac issues related to IV drug use. They introduce bacteria into a vein and that vein takes blood back to the lungs to be re-oxygenated and then to the heart to be pumped out. But once that bacteria is in the blood pool, no matter where it was introduced into the body, it always has to follow the same order of being oxygenated through the lungs and then back to the heart. Why things don’t happen in the lungs as opposed to the heart is because the heart doesn’t pump out 100% of the blood that’s in it. It pumps out usually between 60 and 80% for a healthy heart. So there’s a pool of blood that’s always in your heart that can become stagnant. And if there’s bacteria in it then it has a nice place to grow.
Edited: Source, me, a nurse
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