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[Immunity UP information] "Medicine and Food Health Forum" Q&A ②

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The 22nd installment introduces the question and answer session with Mr. Okazaki and Mr. Watanabe from the special feature "Medicine and Food Health Forum" of "Musubi Magazine April 4 issue". (all XNUMX times).
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Is tooth decay passed from parent to child?
Q.When I was giving my grandson the food I chewed, my daughter told me, "Please don't give the food you chewed to your child."Are cavities and gum disease contagious?

A.Mr. Okazaki said, "That's a good question."
　According to Mr. Okazaki, the phenomenon of infection requires three conditions: "Bacteria enter, live there, and do bad things there."
　Then, "cavity bacteria live only on sugar", so "even if parents give them what they eat, if there is no sugar in the child's mouth, there is no place for cavity bacteria to live." , that is, it does not cause tooth decay.
　The teeth that were shiny at the age of XNUMX may gradually become dull over the course of six months or a year. ``What makes it dull is that the bacteria that cause tooth decay have formed and created plaque.
　Mr. Okazaki continued, "However," and then said, "If my grandmother were full of cavities, gum disease, and bad mouth, if I were a baby, I wouldn't want what she chewed." I don't think so, so I have to fix my own mouth," he added.
　Another said, "We know that cavities bacteria come from parents, but we don't know where periodontal bacteria come from."
　Also, I introduced the story that the treatment of periodontal disease leads to the improvement of diabetes.

There are two types of saliva: smooth and sticky
Q.Are stomatitis associated with chewing?

A.Mr. Okazaki's answer is, "There are parts that are related and parts that are not."
There are two types of saliva, one that is smooth and the other that is sticky.
　It is a saliva that is "smooth when you relax and eat" and contains the digestive enzyme amylase.
　“If you chew well, you will produce a smooth saliva. If you don’t have enough saliva, you will have less defense, so if you think about it that way, you could say it has something to do with chewing.”
　On the other hand, sticky saliva increases when the sympathetic nervous system becomes dominant due to stress.Saliva at this time does not contain amylase.
　“If you think that when you are under a lot of stress, the function of the part that protects your body deteriorates, then naturally the effects of stress will come out.”
　It seems better to chew well to get plenty of saliva and avoid excessive stress.

[Immune power up information]"Medicine and Food Health Forum" Q&A XNUMX
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Yoshihide Okazaki
Born in Osaka Prefecture in 1952.Specializes in pediatric dentistry, dentistry for disabled children, and health education.
He has a deep knowledge of animal teeth and even makes house calls to zoos.He is currently a visiting professor at the Faculty of Dentistry, Mongolian University of Health Sciences.

Sho Watanabe
Born in Pyongyang in 1941.he is a medical doctor.He graduated from Keio University School of Medicine.After working in the Department of Pathology at the same graduate school, the National Cancer Institute, and the Department of Pathology at the National Cancer Center, he became the Director of the Department of Epidemiology.After that, he served as a professor at Tokyo University of Agriculture and as chairman of the National Institute of Health and Nutrition, and currently serves as chairman of the Life Science Foundation and presides over the journals Life Science and Medicine and Food.He is also the president of the Institute of Integrated Medicine and the president of the NPO Japan Society for General Medicine.He has served as a member of various government councils, such as the Health Science Council and the Cabinet Office Shokuiku Promotion Evaluation Committee Chairperson.