Risk of cancer is 14% higher in people with periodontal disease history than those who didn’t have this disease and the increase persisted among never smokers, stated Dominique Michaud, lead researcher and a cancer epidemiologist at Imperial College London, U. K.

According to some experts, an increased amount of inflammatory markers circulate in the blood of People who have gum infections and this inflammation is associated to cancer. However, it is still unclear whether an exact link between gum disease and cancer exists or not.

This new finding is needed to be examined in other populations mainly among women but these finding have confirmed that oral health at least some impact on the risk of cancer, Michaud stated

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