Teeth scanning can reveal risk of brain diseases
Posted: 07/25/2015 01:31 PM IST
Teeth scanning may reveal whether you will suffer from Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, according to a study. The study was published in the journal Nature Reviews Neurology.
Manish Arora, an Indian-origin scientist who is associated with Mount Sinai and Icahn School of Medicine in New York, along with Dominic Hare who is associated with the University of Technology, Sydney utilized a dental biomarker technology to differentiate between breast-fed babies and formula-fed babies.
The researchers stated that this technology is applied to study the link between early iron exposure and late-life brain diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, which are associated with the abnormal processing of iron.
"Our analysis of iron deposits in teeth as a method for retrospective determination of exposure is just one application: we believe teeth have the potential to help track the impact of pollution on health globally," Arora said.
By Lizitha
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