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Dental problems the cause of Ndombele's issues

mawspurs

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According to French news outlet L’Equipe the 23-year-old has been struggling with dental problems throughout the season, after Spurs’ medical staff failed to detect the problem during his medical last summer.

Source: This is Futbol
 

Gassin's finest

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tototoner

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Van Persie used to struggle badly with niggling muscle injuries until he got his wisdom teeth taken out
 

davidmatzdorf

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Here's a post that doesn't contain a joke about overeating. I happen to know a bit about this, from personal experience maintaining my own health and from reading numerous science articles.

  • Dental problems can cause sepsis.
  • Poor dental hygiene can cause endocarditis in susceptible people.
  • Chronic, low-level dental infections can cause complete havoc throughout your immune system.
  • Gum disease is linked with problems in your digestive flora - your "biome" - which in turn has been connected with mental illness, multiple auto-immune disorders and chronic inflammation.
  • Chronic inflammation is linked with an ever-increasing list of debilitating disorders and conditions, some of them life-shortening [and including the muscle injuries that @tototoner reminded me about].

I could go on if I had the time to read up and prod my recall. That was all from memory.

The article almost entirely lacks useful information, but I doubt they're talking about a few cavities or a toothache.
 

LeParisien

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Wenger was way ahead on this in mid to late 90s they saw that dental issues correlated with other (muscular) injuries. Fixing the dental problems resolved the other injuries. Weird but apparently true.
 

davidmatzdorf

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Wenger was way ahead on this in mid to late 90s they saw that dental issues correlated with other (muscular) injuries. Fixing the dental problems resolved the other injuries. Weird but apparently true.
The recent research strongly suggests that the key element to this is chronic low-level inflammation, which is a side-effect of dental and gum disease. The body's inflammation response is being linked to many of the most common ailments, including heart disease, respiratory disease and many auto-immune disorders. Inflammation and the digestive biome are the two big buzz-areas for preventive medical research at present.
 

Japhet

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The recent research strongly suggests that the key element to this is chronic low-level inflammation, which is a side-effect of dental and gum disease. The body's inflammation response is being linked to many of the most common ailments, including heart disease, respiratory disease and many auto-immune disorders. Inflammation and the digestive biome are the two big buzz-areas for preventive medical research at present.


Poor dental hygeine allows high levels of bacterial poison straight into the blood via the gums. It can lead to severe blood poisoning (sepsis) which can then cause catastrophic organ failure. It's common in dogs with bad teeth.
 

davidmatzdorf

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Poor dental hygeine allows high levels of bacterial poison straight into the blood via the gums. It can lead to severe blood poisoning (sepsis) which can then cause catastrophic organ failure. It's common in dogs with bad teeth.
Yes. Sepsis was the very first item in my list above. And the second item was endocarditis, which is similar to sepsis: a bacterial infection in the bloodstream and the heart valves.
 
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