Dr. Ionescu AlexandruA Vanderbilt/JADA study of 37 Egyptian mummies (2000 BCE) found a co-occurrence of dental decay, bone loss, and vascular calcification across both sexes -- reinforcing that the periodontitis–atherosclerosis connection is a long-standing, age-related inflammatory process...
... not a product of modern diet or lifestyle. Use this finding in your patient conversations: Gum disease and heart disease have been traveling together for 4,000 years.