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Leaky Gum: The Revisited Origin of Systemic Diseases
The oral cavity is the gateway for microorganisms into your body where they disseminate not only to the directly connected respiratory and digestive tracts but also to the many remote organs. Oral microbiota, travelling to the end of the intestine and circulating in our bodies through blood vessels,...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8997512/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35406643 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cells11071079 |
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author | Park, Do-Young Park, Jin Young Lee, Dahye Hwang, Inseong Kim, Hye-Sung |
author_facet | Park, Do-Young Park, Jin Young Lee, Dahye Hwang, Inseong Kim, Hye-Sung |
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description | The oral cavity is the gateway for microorganisms into your body where they disseminate not only to the directly connected respiratory and digestive tracts but also to the many remote organs. Oral microbiota, travelling to the end of the intestine and circulating in our bodies through blood vessels, not only affect a gut microbiome profile but also lead to many systemic diseases. By gathering information accumulated from the era of focal infection theory to the age of revolution in microbiome research, we propose a pivotal role of “leaky gum”, as an analogy of “leaky gut”, to underscore the importance of the oral cavity in systemic health. The oral cavity has unique structures, the gingival sulcus (GS) and the junctional epithelium (JE) below the GS, which are rarely found anywhere else in our body. The JE is attached to the tooth enamel and cementum by hemidesmosome (HD), which is structurally weaker than desmosome and is, thus, vulnerable to microbial infiltration. In the GS, microbial biofilms can build up for life, unlike the biofilms on the skin and intestinal mucosa that fall off by the natural process. Thus, we emphasize that the GS and the JE are the weakest leaky point for microbes to invade the human body, making the leaky gum just as important as, or even more important than, the leaky gut. |
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spelling | pubmed-89975122022-04-12 Leaky Gum: The Revisited Origin of Systemic Diseases Park, Do-Young Park, Jin Young Lee, Dahye Hwang, Inseong Kim, Hye-Sung Cells Review The oral cavity is the gateway for microorganisms into your body where they disseminate not only to the directly connected respiratory and digestive tracts but also to the many remote organs. Oral microbiota, travelling to the end of the intestine and circulating in our bodies through blood vessels, not only affect a gut microbiome profile but also lead to many systemic diseases. By gathering information accumulated from the era of focal infection theory to the age of revolution in microbiome research, we propose a pivotal role of “leaky gum”, as an analogy of “leaky gut”, to underscore the importance of the oral cavity in systemic health. The oral cavity has unique structures, the gingival sulcus (GS) and the junctional epithelium (JE) below the GS, which are rarely found anywhere else in our body. The JE is attached to the tooth enamel and cementum by hemidesmosome (HD), which is structurally weaker than desmosome and is, thus, vulnerable to microbial infiltration. In the GS, microbial biofilms can build up for life, unlike the biofilms on the skin and intestinal mucosa that fall off by the natural process. Thus, we emphasize that the GS and the JE are the weakest leaky point for microbes to invade the human body, making the leaky gum just as important as, or even more important than, the leaky gut. MDPI 2022-03-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8997512/ /pubmed/35406643 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cells11071079 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Park, Do-Young Park, Jin Young Lee, Dahye Hwang, Inseong Kim, Hye-Sung Leaky Gum: The Revisited Origin of Systemic Diseases |
title | Leaky Gum: The Revisited Origin of Systemic Diseases |
title_full | Leaky Gum: The Revisited Origin of Systemic Diseases |
title_fullStr | Leaky Gum: The Revisited Origin of Systemic Diseases |
title_full_unstemmed | Leaky Gum: The Revisited Origin of Systemic Diseases |
title_short | Leaky Gum: The Revisited Origin of Systemic Diseases |
title_sort | leaky gum: the revisited origin of systemic diseases |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8997512/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35406643 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cells11071079 |
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