Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Periodontal Disease is linked to aspiratory pneumonia...
Don't let your clients be readmitted to the hospital.
 Make sure they get the oral preventative treatment and care they need.
"Scientists have found that bacteria that grow in the oral...
cavity can be aspirated into the lung to cause respiratory diseases such as pneumonia, especially in people with periodontal disease. This discovery leads researchers to believe that these respiratory bacteria can travel from the oral cavity into the lungs to cause infection."
http://www.perio.org/consumer/mbc.respiratory.htm

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