Category Gum Disease

Key Takeaways Bone loss is the thread connecting two of the most prevalent chronic conditions in aging populations: osteoporosis and periodontitis. One attacks the skeleton systemically, weakening the microarchitecture of cortical and trabecular bone until fracture risk becomes life-threatening. The…

Key Takeaways Introduction For decades, the clinical approach to periodontal disease has followed a fundamentally adversarial logic: identify the harmful bacteria, remove them mechanically, and where necessary suppress them chemically. Scaling and root planing, chlorhexidine, systemic and local antibiotics —…

Key Takeaways Introduction Alzheimer’s disease affects an estimated 55 million people worldwide. It is, for most of those affected, untreatable in any meaningful sense — a slow, irreversible deterioration against which medicine has made frustratingly little progress. The drugs approved…