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Never Too Young For Gum Disease

A study was done at the dentistry school of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) that showed gum disease can start much earlier than you might expect, without the obvious symptoms, and it could also boost the odds of health problems including preterm birth in affected pregnant women.

Sometime between baby teeth and dentures, gum disease can settle in silently.

That process can be under way when people are still in their 20s without obvious traces.

Many participants had gum disease without symptoms around their wisdom teeth, and their gum disease often worsened in just two years.

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