Dentist tips for Dental Health Week

Australian Community Media

Dental Health Week is the Australian Dental Association’s major annual oral health campaign on the importance of taking steps to care for your teeth and gums to help you keep your teeth and smile for life.

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00:00 I'm the oral health promoter for the Australian Dental Association and I also work as a general

00:04 dentist for New South Wales Health.

00:06 Just to give you a bit of context, Dental Health Week is an annual campaign run by the

00:09 Australian Dental Association.

00:11 The focus for this year has been on the connection between the mouth and the rest of the body.

00:15 Your mouth is full of bacteria.

00:17 There's a balance between good and bad bacteria.

00:19 When you forget to floss or you brush, you're just neglecting your oral health.

00:23 The rates of bacteria start to increase and we're actually seeing a raise in the bad bacteria.

00:28 And that bacteria can go into your bloodstream, it can be swallowed into your gut or inhaled

00:32 into your lungs.

00:33 So it's going to get lodged into other sites of your body where it's either going to contribute

00:37 to the development of diseases or make conditions that you have already possibly worse.

00:42 And we know that there's links between the mouth and cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes,

00:47 low birth weight babies, Alzheimer's disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and there's more conditions

00:54 that are being explored.

00:55 That evidence base is growing.

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