MEMORY AFFECTED BY DENTAL HEALTH
Kind of a dramatic claim. Have any further studies been done as to this tooth-memory link?
Aren’t all nerves connected to the brain?
Wouldn’t both of these be correlated with old age?
I am not impressed that that website labels its window “Memoray Affected by Dental Health.”
I’m thinking the article is a piss-take.
It’s the Betula Project. Their web page hasn’t been updated since 2002. The only news in their “News” is that their 2005 wave of data collection was complete, and that they got more funding from the Swedish government that will enable a new wave of data collection in 2008. IOW, no great breakthroughs have been reported.
That Agente-Presse blurb was in 2004. In 2006 they were still issuing press releases.
All of Bergdahl’s articles submitted for peer-review journals deal with burning mouth and dry mouth syndrome, except for a few dealing with the effects of mercury amalgam fillings, and with “sick building syndrome”–and one entitled " Natural teeth and cognitive function in humans. 2006" which was accepted. And which paper sank without a trace into the Internet world of Google.
So, what I’m seeing is someone who already has a tendency towards the woo, and who has come up with a theory that he is unable to substantiate to any great degree, bu who continues to putter around with it as it is being underwritten by someone else.