1/.A thread to explain the reasons why it is important to care for the mouth if you have #COVID. If you don't have time to read is all, here is the mouth care guidance (patient information sheet) we are providing our patients @SalisburyNHS .

And last, here is a provocative slide. Yes, I know this is an oversimplification, but so is the message that smoking kills*. I'm just sayin' please treat your mouth with the respect it deserves. *NB: Smoking kills people partly because it causes oral dysbiosis #MissingLink

The main criminal gangsters of gum disease are . P.gingivalis*.T.forsythia*.T.denticola*.*= the red complex.F.nucleatum.A.actinomycetemcomitans.(other pathogens are available).

I encourage you to do some research for yourself. If you have a body disease, look it up and see if it is connected with any of the following . -Gum disease (search for periodontitis).-Oral dysbiosis.-and specific bacteria of gum disease . .

we need a Copernican shift in our understanding of the importance of the biology of the mouth. All organs of the body revolve around the mouth - not the other way round.

Here's a conventional view of the body solar system, (which I learned at medical school by omission of the mouth or anything to do with oral health). But the mouth should not be an outcast of the body and left to dentists to deal with .

Growing evidence also shows that caring for your mouth and treating gum disease are beneficial steps to multiple systemic diseases of the body. (Prevention is better than cure!)

Things which add to oral dysbiosis do not only lead to the chronic inflammation of gum disease. Gum disease bacteria (mainly P.gingivalis) escape your mouth and trigger inflammation all over your body using the same cellular weapons they used to survive in the mouth.

P.gingivalis has powerful cellular weapons of immune evasion to help it survive in the mouth. It harvests haem (iron) from your red blood cells, infects your gum epithelial cells and even enters and survives within your immune cells. It possesses highly toxic enzymes . .

The main culprit of gum disease is a bacterium species called Porphyromonas gingivalis. But it can't act alone like other pathogens. P.gingivalis creates and hides in a biofilm in the gap between your teeth and gums in the setting of oral dysbiosis (imbalanced oral microbiome).

Translocated gum disease bacteria then lead to inflammatory processes throughout the body via biological mechanisms which are now described in detail. Atherosclerosis.Insulin resistance.Autoimmunity.Neuroinflammation.Vascular inflammation.Gut/lung epithelial inflammation

And from the open wound of your mouth, your gum disease bacteria (which created the dysbiotic wound in your gums by evading and subverting your immune response), then travel all over your body, via the gut, airways of the lungs, and directly into your bloodstream.

The mouth is an immune organ (not just a cakehole). If the physical and microbial barrier of the mouth fails, the immune function of the mouth fails. The mouth becomes an open wound - an open wound which persists for the days, weeks, months, years and decades of your whole life.

Would anyone like me to share some selected slides from recent lectures/presentations I’ve done?. (If anyone else on the planet has the same slides I will buy them a pint*). *airfare not included.

RT @TheBDA: "By 2035, the NHS dental system will be transformed.". That's the promise in the NHS 10 Year Plan. Ministers have pledged to b….

… relearn medicine as a science in which the mouth is part of the body and not some sort of outcast which can be left to dentists to deal with. The mouth is a disease funnel. Pathogenic bacteria of gum disease get everywhere in the human body. And they are killing us.

Go brush your teeth.Give up smoking/vaping.Give up all forms of food to which you or another human being has added sugar.Make friends with your dentist.Eat evolutionary food (to feed your oral microbiome not just you). And if you are a doctor then relearn the whole of medicine ….

Look up …. #OralDysbiosis.#Periodontitis (severe gum disease). And the keystone pathogens of gum disease ….#PGingivalis.#FNucleatum.#RedComplex.#TForsythia.#TDenticola.#Aactinomycetemcomitans. Then ….

… the blood-brain barrier. If you don’t think this could be true, please can you not reply to me before doing the following…. Read the research!. Don’t take my word for it. I am saying nothing that the literature does not say….

of the human body. Wherever they go our gum disease bacteria destroy immune barriers: the mucous membranes of the mouth, the gut wall (leaky gut), epithelial cells of the lung airways, endothelial cells (you have 60,000 miles of these cells which line your blood vessels), and….

Our gum disease pathogens switch off production of our immune cells. They infect (YES INFECT) our immune cells and alter their function and make them pro-inflammatory. They then use these immune cells as a transport system around the body and then INFECT cells in every corner.