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Low Birth Weight Babies: Due to Gum Disease?

The effect of Periodontal Disease (Bleeding Gums with Halitosis Symptoms)
contribute MORE to Premature Low-Weight Babies than either SMOKING, or ALCOHOL USE!


"We found that patients with severe gum disease were SEVEN TIMES more likely to have low birth weight babies", says the professor who lead the most detailed study on this problem. Dr. Steven Offenbacher of the University of North Carolina says that these findings have serious implications because such babies account for 67% of all infant mortalities! Of all babies born in the US, 10% are premature AND low in birth weight (less than 5.3 pounds). They account for 5,000,000 neonatal ICU hospital days annually at a cost of more than $5,000,000,000.00 ($5 Billion) every year. "They are underdeveloped and ill-prepared to survive in the outside world."

Dr. Offenbacher adds, "For the 30% that do survive, their low weight is a major cause of long-term disability and illness later in life. Now it appears that gum disease... could be a major cause of it."

M.C. McCormick in the New England Journal of Medicine stated in 1985 that a hoped for decline in this societal problem will be sustained only through the Prevention of low-weight births through effective services for the mothers during pregnancy.

Even a small amount of gingival bleeding should be cause for alarm. It is not caused by hard brushing, but by anaerobic sulfur-producing bacteria. The sulfur compounds they produce allow their own toxins, plus toxins from other bacteria, to enter the blood stream. Some of these toxins may well cross the placenta to inhibit growth in unborn children and cause low birth weights.

In order to eliminate the problem at its source, the PerioTherapy System has the ability to wipe out the dangerous sulfur compounds through a process called Oxygenation. PeriO2, one of the active ingredients in PerioTherapy converts Thiols (Hydrogen Sulfide, Methyl Mercaptan, etc.) into other non-Thiol compounds. This is the simplest and most effective non-invasive method to alleviate these problems at their root.

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