Dentists, psychologists, and neurologists in Sweden and Norway are cooperating on the Betula Project of aging, memory, senility and health. They discovered that there is a link between tooth loss and memory loss:
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1482477.ece |
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What are we talking about again... I forgot.
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They didn't lose their teeth. They just forgot where they put them.
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Gee I don't know maybe it's really about age. Older people are more likely to lose teeth to disease and rot, and as a consequence their memories get fuzzier also.
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The correlation seems natural to me. After all those with a full set of teeth probably remembered to brush them.
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Darn! If I had known that, I never would have let the dentist take my "wisdom teeth". Hehehe...
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