Tooth extraction may cause some memory loss

Tooth extraction may cause some memory loss(2008-04-02 14:38:48)
Tags:Teeth Extraction Memory Health


Swedish scientists recently released a study shows that when the pain of the teeth were pulled out, and make them part of the memories are "pull" out.

In order to conduct this study, since 1988, Sweden, Umea University, researchers in more than 15 years of the time of the 1962 age of 35 to 90-year-old volunteers conducted a follow-up survey on the teeth healthy volunteers memory and the teeth were all extracted using dentures volunteers were compared to memory. Scientists have discovered that in all such as education, age, disease history and other factors, all of similar cases, the teeth were significantly higher than healthy teeth memory of those who have been uprooted much better.

I Moao University, Jan Bergdahl, associate professor, said: "We own this result is also surprised. For the elderly dental conditions and amnesia studies, this may be a breakthrough." Bergdahl yes dentists, but also one of the authors of the report.

He also pointed out that their study is the first such large-scale study against humanity, and before that in animals carried out the experiment. The results showed that tooth extraction could cut off access to the brain and nerves, thus affecting memory.

This result and the recent Japanese scientists right mouse teeth and the relationship between memory and the study results are very consistent. Japanese scientists found that mice teeth were pulled out of the memory significantly better than the teeth healthy mice.

The study has so far failed to explain the extraction of human memory in the end have any effect. May be because there are many nerves and brain, teeth, connected, when the tooth was removed, these nerves disappeared accordingly