February is American Heart Month, a time where all varieties of health professionals put a little bit of extra focus on cardiovascular illness. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, which means that teaching people how best to stave it off is of great importance to anyone who takes health seriously.
As it turns out, dentists are as interested as anyone else in heart health, and there’s a good reason for this: emerging evidence suggests that there are substantial connections between oral health problems and cardiovascular disease. If you want to know more about this relationship, as well as how you can ensure that your oral health is in the best shape that it can possibly be, here’s some information you might find helpful.
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