NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The National Institutes of Health has awarded $1.3 million to an interdisciplinary team that will investigate how people's oral health might affect their memory, and vice versa.
Dr. Bei Wu, a gerontologist at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, will lead the research, which will examine existing national and regional studies of thousands of people.
Research has already established a strong association between oral health and heart disease, stroke and diabetes, as well as Alzheimer's disease. Yet there has been little study of how the state of an older person's teeth and gums relates to their mental function, Dr. Richard Crout, who is participating in the new study, noted in an interview with Reuters Health. Nevertheless, he added, it's becoming increasingly clear that "to have overall good general health you need to have good oral health."
By Anne Harding
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