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Seems to me they likely have the causality reversed. As your mental acuity decreases, your ability to properly care for your teeth decreases. You forget to brus
by DrSprout 16y ago
Seems to me they likely have the causality reversed. As your mental acuity decreases, your ability to properly care for your teeth decreases. You forget to brush as often as you should, and so you lose more teeth. Also your brushing effectiveness could be reduced, as evaluating whether further brushing is necessary is not an entirely trivial task.
- Detrus 16y agoProbably not. I had gum disease and cavities when I was 20 after brushing everyday and using Listerine. Maybe I sucked at brushing and didn't know it, either way my brain got screwed.
- ahoyhere 16y agoSome people just have weak teeth. You might also have a dietary problem -- or calcium deficiency. There were no women in the study, which is interesting, because women often have huge teeth problems during and after pregnancy. (And breaking small bones!) This happens if their calcium is not managed effectively.
- klochner 16y agoClearly we need a test of female cognition during and after pregnancy.
- ahoyhere 16y agoI suspect you would find many women are mentally impaired during pregnancy, based on my anecdotal experience. The hormones screw up your brain. But, of course, that's irrelevant, since the men who lost teeth in the OP's study weren't tested for cognition deficits the second they lost a teeth. It was an ex post facto observed link --- and they don't know why. So my comment had lots of good sense in it, while yours had none.
- defen 16y agoWell is your brain fixed now? That's terrifying.