Better Dental Health Means Better General Health

This is a link to an article by Mario D. Garret PhD on the "Psychology Today" website, describing various pieces of research on links between dental infections and dementia. It's worth a read. There seems to be more of a connection to Alzheimer's Disease than Vascular Dementia, so far, but the blog author intends to go on looking, as anything that involves inflammation in the neck might contribute to vascular dementia. While hunting for articles on this subject, the blog author came across quite a lot of material indicating that people who already have dementia, suffer worse problems (especially memory loss) if they then get an infection of almost any sort. The main suspects are chest infections and UTIs, but references are also made to common colds and, well, practically everything. It seems likely that dental infections are equally damaging once a patient actually has dementia, but this does not address the question of whether or not dental infections can act