Improper Dog Dental Care Linked To Heart Disease In Dogs
Let’s face it, your dog’s breath can get to be really unpleasant. But who could blame them, not surprisingly, your breath would smell too if you never brushed your teeth!
Providing Fido with the appropriate dog dental care is good not only to fight bad dog breath, but, based on a recent study, it can also help keep your dog healthy and long lived.
The research which included over 100,000 dogs was carried out by Dr. Larry Glickman at Purdue University. The study included an identical number of dogs with gum disease and those without it. It was discovered that there is a statistical link between dogs with gum disease and dogs with heart disease.
This was particularly true when it came to heart valve inflammation (endocarditis). In fact, only 0.01 percent of dogs that didn’t have gum disease had endocarditis but.15 percent of the dogs with stage 3 gum disease got endocarditis.
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