A research team at Severance Hospital has found that patients with periodontal disease have a higher risk of suffering from cancer, which stresses the need for proper dental care.
A Severance Hospital research team has discovered that patients with periodontal disease have a higher risk of suffering from cancer. Periodontal disease causes gum inflammation due to the increased bacteria in the mouth that causes dental plaque to become toxic. If patients do not remove plaque quickly, it will gradually become hard calculus that worsens the symptoms. In addition, a patient with periodontal disease can increase inflammatory factors, such as interleukin and TNF-alpha, in the bloodstream, increasing the risk of systemic inflammatory diseases and cancer.
The research team, led by Professors Kim Han-sang at Yonsei Cancer Center, Jung In-kyung at Yonsei University College of Medicine, and Kim Baek-il at Yonsei University College of Dentistry, compared and analyzed the cancer incidence rates of 710,000 people by dividing them into two groups — 50,000 patients with periodontal disease and 660,000 without periodontal disease — over a decade.
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Patients With Periodontal Disease Have a 13% Higher Risk of Cancer