{"id":216034,"date":"2025-06-16T14:12:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T19:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/space-conditions-can-cause-gum-inflammation-and-bone-loss-say-scientists"},"modified":"2025-06-16T14:12:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T19:12:22","slug":"space-conditions-can-cause-gum-inflammation-and-bone-loss-say-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/space-conditions-can-cause-gum-inflammation-and-bone-loss-say-scientists","title":{"rendered":"Space conditions can cause gum inflammation and bone loss, say scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/space-conditions-can-cause-gum-inflammation-and-bone-loss-say-scientists.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Living in zero gravity can lead to periodontitis, a common and serious condition where the gums become inflamed and the bone that supports teeth starts to break down, eventually leading to tooth loss, scientists reveal in a new study.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists confirm their findings in a study <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/jre.70000\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the <i>Journal of Periodontal Research<\/i>, in which they try to understand how simulated <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/microgravity\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">microgravity <\/a>\u2014the near-weightless environment astronauts experience in space\u2014might influence the development and severity of periodontitis.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers carried out their experiment in a lab in which <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/mice\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">mice<\/a> were used to test the impact of periodontitis in <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/microgravity+conditions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">microgravity conditions<\/a> and on Earth. To simulate this, they used a special model where mice were placed in a position that mimics the effects of microgravity, and then gum disease was induced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living in zero gravity can lead to periodontitis, a common and serious condition where the gums become inflamed and the bone that supports teeth starts to break down, eventually leading to tooth loss, scientists reveal in a new study. The scientists confirm their findings in a study published in the Journal of Periodontal Research, in [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216034","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=216034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}