The dentist you choose today will show up in your heart, your brain, and your gut decades from now.
Picture two people. Same age, same genes, same diet.
Years ago, one chose a dentist who treats the mouth as part of the whole body. The other chose a perfectly fine drill-and-fill dentist covered by insurance.
Over the next eight weeks, I want to follow these two people and their health trajectory, one organ at a time. We’ll start with your heart: the last place you’d expect a dentist to look.
When I began telling patients their gums had something to do with their heart, some colleag...
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