Study: Gum disease can cause serious COVID-19 complications

Dr. Amy Tongsiri, Clinical Director for Smile Designers of Las Vegas, has been featured in a new study that shows that gum disease may be linked to serious COVID-19 cases.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, just over 47% of adults that are at least 30-years-old in the U.S. have some form of gum disease.

“A lot of people don’t even realize that they have it,” says Dr. Amy Tongsiri, Liberty Dental Plan.

The study by the Journal of Clinical Periodontology suggests that COVID-19 patients with gum disease were nine times more likely to die.

“When you have other diseases like COVID going on, that can be a segue into attacking our bodies a little more harshly,” says Dr. Tongsiri.

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