Dr Graham Lloyd-Jones

How specific gum disease bacteria give us chronic and lethal lung diseases…

Summary: Gum disease bacteria get into our lungs (via our airways and bloodstream) and then do their disease and death thing.

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Shi et al 2023
mdpi.com/2076-0817/12/9…

How gum disease (which we ignore) causes thrombosis (which kills us) ...

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Ge et al 2024

We've known for 28 years that gum disease bacteria INFECT our blood vessels and CAUSE atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (the disease which is most likely to kill you) ...

(How long before we do something about it I wonder?)

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Deshpande et al 1998
doi.org/10.1128/iai.66…

We didn’t 'forget' this link, we never knew it!

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The forgotten link: how the oral microbiome shapes childhood growth and development
RRT et al 2025
doi.org/10.3389/froh.2…

What EVERY DOCTOR who cares for people with cardiovascular disease needs to know about oral health recommendations ...

(And every person with CVD)

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Sanz et al 2020
Periodontitis and cardiovascular diseases: Consensus report
doi.org/10.1111/jcpe.1…