{"id":213986,"date":"2025-05-14T06:33:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T11:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/how-the-tiny-microbes-in-your-mouth-could-be-putting-your-health-at-risk"},"modified":"2025-05-14T06:33:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T11:33:51","slug":"how-the-tiny-microbes-in-your-mouth-could-be-putting-your-health-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/how-the-tiny-microbes-in-your-mouth-could-be-putting-your-health-at-risk","title":{"rendered":"How the tiny microbes in your mouth could be putting your health at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-the-tiny-microbes-in-your-mouth-could-be-putting-your-health-at-risk.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Current dental implants can work well, but they\u2019re not perfect. They don\u2019t attach to bones and gums in the same way that real teeth do. And <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1186\/s12903-022-02493-8\">around 20% of people who get implants end up developing an infection called peri-implantitis<\/a>, which can lead to bone loss.<\/p>\n<p>It is all down to the microbes that grow on them. There\u2019s a complex community of microbes living in our mouths, and disruptions can lead to infection. But these organisms don\u2019t just affect our mouths; they also seem to be linked to a growing number of disorders that can affect our bodies and brains. If you\u2019re curious, read on.<\/p>\n<p>The oral microbiome, as it is now called, was first discovered in 1670 by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, a self-taught Dutch microbiologist. <strong>\u201cI didn\u2019t clean my teeth for three days and then took the material that had lodged in small amounts on the gums above my front teeth \u2026 I found a few living animalcules,\u201d<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.asm.org\/doi\/10.1128\/mmbr.00024-07\">he wrote in a letter to the Royal Society at the time<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current dental implants can work well, but they\u2019re not perfect. They don\u2019t attach to bones and gums in the same way that real teeth do. And around 20% of people who get implants end up developing an infection called peri-implantitis, which can lead to bone loss. It is all down to the microbes that grow [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}