SPOILER ALERT:
ORAL HEALTH AND HEART HEALTH ARE CONNECTED
How the Mouth-Body Connection® is gaining traction beyond PDS-supported clinicians and into the freshman class of a California high school. When 14-year-old Kavya Kadakia, a freshman at Centennial High School in Southern California, began brainstorming ideas for her science fair project, she wasn’t sure where to begin. She began looking through her parents’ bookshelves and stumbled on “Beat the Heart Attack Gene” by Bradley Bale, MD, and Amy Doneed, ARNP, a book that highlights the link between periodontal disease and cardiovascular
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disease. Intrigued, she realized the best source for information about the Mouth-Body Connection lived under her own roof. Kavya’s mother, Smita Kadakia, DDS, is the owner dentist and primary clinician at office 73, South Corona Dental Group. The apple, as they say, doesn’t fall far from the tree.
