{"id":247413,"date":"2026-11-15T03:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/the-number-of-teeth-in-your-mouth-could-be-a-major-warning-sign-of-dementia"},"modified":"2026-11-15T03:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T09:30:00","slug":"the-number-of-teeth-in-your-mouth-could-be-a-major-warning-sign-of-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/the-number-of-teeth-in-your-mouth-could-be-a-major-warning-sign-of-dementia","title":{"rendered":"The Number of Teeth in Your Mouth Could Be a Major Warning Sign of Dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We still don\u2019t fully understand the causes of dementia, but scientists are making progress.<\/p>\n<p>Most encouragingly, research suggests that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/who-issues-new-guidelines-on-how-to-reduce-dementia-cases-by-45\">almost half of dementia cases could be reduced<\/a>, at least temporarily, thanks to modifiable risk factors that can help to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/avoiding-these-3-things-in-middle-age-linked-to-delayed-dementia\">prevent or postpone the disease from occurring<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But a new study reveals we might have been overlooking a serious risk factor for cognitive decline, and it\u2019s been hiding right under our nose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We still don\u2019t fully understand the causes of dementia, but scientists are making progress. Most encouragingly, research suggests that almost half of dementia cases could be reduced, at least temporarily, thanks to modifiable risk factors that can help to prevent or postpone the disease from occurring. But a new study reveals we might have been [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247413","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\/247413","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=247413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}