3 ms·

Periodontists have been also linked with a higher number of Alzheimer cases. Is a group of risk in this disease.

• bagels 3y ago
  The doctor or their patients have the higher risk?
  • pvaldes 3y ago
    if I remember correctly Dentists had more cases of alzheimer than other groups of doctors. I heard it some time ago. If is a prion, it should resist most sterilization of dental instruments by heat on autoclave. So is obvious IMAO that this could be a way to spread the disease from one patient to other, but I'm not an expert on clinic procedures and the protocols may have been updated. This is known, or at least suspected, since maybe a decade or so.
    • meindnoch 3y ago
      >Dentists had more cases of alzheimer than other groups of doctors Herpes? 1. Travels along nerve cells 2. Causes lifelong infection 3. Can enter the brain (HSV encephalitis) 4. Herpetic whitlow used to be an occupational disease of dental workers (still is to some extent) "Overwhelming Evidence for a Major Role for Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 (HSV1) in Alzheimer’s Disease (AD); Underwhelming Evidence against" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8234998/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8234998/
    • EasyMark 3y ago
      do you recall percentages? like 10% higher or 5x higher?
      • pvaldes 3y ago
        Don't remember, sorry. It was a lot of time ago. The articles should be listed in scientific indexes. Dentists are a special group that worked a lot with mercury in the past, dunno if is related but it could be a combination of risk factors. We should ask a chemist. In any case today the facts can be very different.