doesnt need to spread to your brain, just cause sepsis lowering your blood pressure to dangerous levels, or to a major organ and kill you that way.
Comment on Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 4 Years
frongt@lemmy.zip 5 days agoA tooth infection can easily spread to your brain and kill you. It’s a very short path.
But even if your teeth are just regular bad, that affects how you can eat, and eating is kind of important to living.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 days ago
adespoton@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
Research has also shown a link between dental bacteria and heart disease. Not sure if it’s causation or correlation, but keeping your dental microbiome healthy seems to have benefits throughout the body.