Unhealthy Gums Could Up Your Odds for Dementia
Koppel doesn't discount the importance of what's happening in the mouth as it relates to Alzheimer's disease. He said that research is being done on saliva to see what it has to tell about conditions in the brain.
"People are interested in looking at the saliva for biomarkers of the proteins in the brain that are related to Alzheimer's," Koppel said."But whether the mouth may have other secrets hasn't really been explored," he added.
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