Every time you suffer from a gum infection or lose a tooth, the part of your brain that controls memory shrinks. Here is how you can prevent your brain from shrinking further.
that took into account animal models also hinted that tooth loss leads to neurodegeneration.
All these participants underwent a series of dental and brain checkups before the study began, and none had dementia. What’s more interesting is that participants with mild infections but fewer teeth and those with severe gum damage but more teeth experienced the fastest shrinking of the left hippocampus region.
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