6 things you didn’t know about teeth

1. Many viral diseases have diagnostic signs in the oral cavity. These can show your dentist, for example, that you have problems with your thyroid gland or that you should have an HPV (Human Papilloma Virus) test or, worse, a syphilis or HIV test.

2. If you frequently bite your cheek with your cheeks, you can choose the so-called white line, a kind of embossed line inside the mouth, which presents a risk of malignancy of cells and, implicitly, of oral cancer.

3. If the position of the teeth and the intermaxillary relationship are not perfectly normal, the person in question may have serious problems with the posture of the spine or the locomotor system. Instead, a perfect occlusion of the jaws favors an impeccable position of the spine.

4. Mental molars do not always erupt, and many who experience temporo-mandibular pain do not think that they are caused by the jaws. Even left in the gums, these molars move and hit the neighboring teeth, causing pain.

5. Tongue and lips can influence the position of the teeth. This is because the teeth move all the time throughout life, and if you have tics such as biting your lips or the muscles of the lower jaw is very strong, it is possible to choose crooked teeth. “This explains the fact that some people who had straight teeth in adolescence, at the age of 30 end up wearing braces”, explains Dr. Laura Mocanu, from the Art Implant Clinic.

6. An untreated tooth infection can migrate to certain vital areas and can even lead to death, causing sepsis. In other situations, such infections lead to the appearance of a benign cyst, which, if not detected in time, turns into a malignant cyst.

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