Dr. Fenderson, a dentist in Napa, CA has for many years advocated the fact that any infection and especially an infection in the mouth, which is usually a gum disease or periodontal disease, can cause easily all illness including cancers, diabetes, heart disease, strokes and also accelerates other illnesses such as the flu due to the weakening of the immune system caused by gum or periodontal disease.

Dr. Fenderson is not alone and many prominent medical journals have commented on such medical findings.

Last week Dr. Kuniyasu Ochiai, professor who chairs the Microbiology Department at Nihon University, Japan has even published tests that show the connection of gum disease and AIDS.

“It makes sense”, Dr. Fenderson says: “after all a gum disease is an infection and all infections weaken the immune system.”

Think in terms of firemen.

When there is one or even two wildfires, even though not all that large then there are fewer firemen available to prevent or put out a much bigger fire somewhere else.­­­

And there is another point which ads danger to any infection in the mouth, and that is that the whole mouth, the gums; the cheeks are the pathways to the blood vessels.

As most people well know, any dissolvable powder or drops will have a faster effect when put under the tongue. That is because the millions of small blood vessels are very exposed and go right in the main blood stream.

The thing to realize here, adds Dr. Fenderson, from Napa, CA, is that there are not even 12 inches from the mouth to the heat or the brain.

So the question, if you happen to have an infection in the mouth is – where do you want that yellow puss (infection) to travel – to the brain or to the heart?

Dr. Kuniyasu Ochiai’s studies about the connection of gum disease to AIDS will be published in the March issue of the US monthly Journal of Immunology.

But no matter what, it becomes pretty clear that the mouth, the gums, and also the actual teeth have a much more widespread influence on the body than just good looks and not having any pain, finishes Dr. Fenderson.