Peter Attia· MD
um but the sixth month is how dentists recommended and it's through research that shows because we're going to disease is a very slow progression i see it's not a disease that you have today in three months you're gonna have two millimeters of bone loss unless you have something else in your body that combined with the inflammation that is triggering systemically then your bone is gonna do very quick go away very quick but i think because periodontal disease is slow progression and i know we did a study three years ago that we looked at people and we measure predominantly disease every two months we help the treatment we didn't do the treatment and we watched how people would progress and it's crazy there are people who progress very quick they're people who never progress and their people will take two years to progress wow so what do you think explain those differences systemic um because periodontal disease is a highly communi communicates with your body if you have a systemic issue it's going to exacerbate inflammation so wait so you you could predict the extent of disease a person has if you knew how systemically healthy or sick they were yeah you can if you have a lot of infections you have diabetes we know you're more susceptible to have periodontal disease so there are groups of risk that those particular group they need to see a dentist more often they need to do more cleanings and they need to prevent