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Does Gum Disease Cause Heart Attacks? Really?

2,282 views · Published 6 June 2017 · 13:22 · Indexed 4 October 2026

Channel: Dr. Ford Brewer MD MPH · 2017 · Science & Technology

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ABOUT THIS VIDEO:
Dentists spend their day looking into our mouths. They see evidence of cardiovascular inflammation in the gums. In fact, the mouth is similar to eyes in this respect. We can see a clear reflection of arterial health just by looking. 

Inflamed gums lose their link pink color and get an angry dark red red.  There is even clearly visible loss of the bone tissue which makes up the socket which stabilizes the tooth. 

There are several diseases associated with each other; hypertension, chronic kidney disease, diabetes, gum disease, heart attack, stroke, heart failure and senility. 

I've got several videos talking about the associations between these diseases, diabetes, and the diabetes gene (9P21):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxOWtLyVjnw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBErVjwtpnE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6sP5QFBYpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW2Q5zRetP0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJD0yFfIyiY

It's known that there are several drivers of cardiovascular inflammation. It appears to me that diabetes (which in turn driven by the 9P21 gene) and gum disease are critical drivers in this aging process. I don't agree with the American Heart Association's position that causality is not supported. And I don't think that we have to passively wait for these diseases to happen. We can prevent them.
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ABOUT DR. BREWER
Dr. Brewer started as an Emergency Doctor. After seeing too many preventable heart attacks, he went to Johns Hopkins to learn Preventive Medicine. While there, he went on the run the post-graduate training program (residency) in Preventive Medicine. From there, he made a career of practicing and managing preventive medicine and primary care clinics. His later role in this area was Chief Medical Officer for Premise, which has close to 1,000 primary care/prevention clinics. He was also the Chief Medical Officer for MDLIVE, the second largest telemedicine company. More recently, he founded PrevMed, a heart attack, and stroke prevention clinic.

At PrevMed, we focus on heart attack, stroke, and cognitive decline. We serve patients who have already experienced an event as well as those who have not developed a diagnosis or event. Dr. Brewer provides services via telemedicine or in person if you're in the Lexington, KY area. We find a lot of undiagnosed prediabetes or insulin resistance. Treating unrecognized risk factors like prediabetes allows reduction of risk and prevention of disease.

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