You’ve probably heard your dentist say that the mouth is the gateway to the body. At Alisa Dental Care, a trusted dental clinic in Richmond Town, Bangalore, we see growing evidence supporting this connection. A new study even suggests that poor oral health may increase the risk of developing hepatocellular carcinoma—the most common type of liver cancer—by up to 75%.
Liver cancer is said to be the sixth bigger cancer killer in the EU, causing the death of almost 60,000 people per year. The research from Queen’s University Belfast involved 469,628 participants in the UK. The researchers investigated the association between oral health conditions and the risk of a number of gastrointestinal cancers, including liver, colon, rectum and pancreatic cancer.