{"id":226596,"date":"2025-12-06T00:23:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T06:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/this-common-dental-problem-could-threaten-your-brain"},"modified":"2025-12-06T00:23:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T06:23:27","slug":"this-common-dental-problem-could-threaten-your-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/this-common-dental-problem-could-threaten-your-brain","title":{"rendered":"This Common Dental Problem Could Threaten Your Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-common-dental-problem-could-threaten-your-brain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists found that having both gum disease and cavities was associated with a sharply higher risk of stroke and heart problems. Regular dental care may be an easy, overlooked way to protect not just your smile, but your brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists found that having both gum disease and cavities was associated with a sharply higher risk of stroke and heart problems. Regular dental care may be an easy, overlooked way to protect not just your smile, but your brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226596","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}