Healthy gums, healthy sex life

Your gums do more than just provide a contrasting pink backdrop for your pearly white teeth to nestle on. Poor gum health has for instance been linked to heart disease since bacteria from gum infections can get into the bloodstream and cause all sorts of problems further afield. The same applies to the inflammation that occurs with poorly maintained gums. Even diabetes has been linked to unhealthy gums. Now a new study reports that gum disease is also linked to inability to achieve an erection.

“Erectile dysfunction” is the sterile medical term for a man’s inability to be aroused and achieve a penile erection that is sufficient for satisfactory sexual performance. No phrase or description however is adequate to describe the full impact of not being able to perform sexually. The flow ons include anxiety, loss of self-esteem, loss of self-confidence, and strained relationships.

So finding the reasons behind, and therefore treatments for, erection problems is an important area of research. That is why researchers conducted this new study examining gum Health and erectile dysfunction.

The reasoning behind the research was that since gum disease has been proven to be linked to heart disease, and blood vessel problems have been linked to erection difficulties, then perhaps gum disease may also be linked to erectile issues.

The researchers examined data from men attending dental clinics to see if gum disease correlated with erectile dysfunction incidence. The finding was that 82 per cent of men with erectile dysfunction also had gum disease. Additionally, the relationship appeared to be linear; as the severity of erectile dysfunction increased so did the prevalence of gum disease. For instance, in men with only moderate erection problems only 40 per cent also had gum disease.

So for all of you who did not find it enough that unhealthy gums means bad teeth and an endangered heart to motivate you to take care of your gums, you can now add sex problems to the list of issues that arise when gums are not at their best. Armed with this information one imagines that flossing may take on a new urgency in bathrooms around the nation.

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