Oral Health and Dental Management

The mouth gut axis: How the oral microbiome dictates human health

4^th Asia Pacific Congress & Expo on Dental and Oral Health

July 27-29, 2015 Brisbane, Australia

Steven Lin

Posters-Accepted Abstracts: Oral Health Dent Manag

Abstract:

Throughout human history we have felt we are at war with microbes existing in our environment. Mainstream thought was long pinned to the idea that bacterial entities are the enemy and we must do all we can to combat them. However recent advances in the understanding of the human microbiome show that this is far from the case. With bacterial cells outnumbering human cells by a factor of 10 to 1, the reality that our bodies are a vessel for an ecosystem of bacterial genetic diversity that dictates our own physiological processes. Researchers are just discovering how dysbiosis of the gut microbiome links to disease processes of nearly all of the bodily systems including immune, digestion and brain. Whilst medical attention is only recently being drawn to the bacterial origin of disease processes, the dental community has long established the bacterial origin of oral diseases such as dental caries and periodontal disease. The missing link is to connect the oral microbiome dysbiosis found in dental disease and recognizing its role affecting the human microbial flora, and hence every other disease process in the body.