According to a recent study by the British Dental Health Foundation, "Poor oral health has joined the list of knock-on effects of obesity."
Just a few years ago, 1.5 billion adults (ages 20 and older,) were overweight, of that number, over 200 million men and about 300 million women were obese. Periodontal pockets are food and plaque traps that irritate and decay teeth to the point that the tooth will finally fall out.
