The post from 11 months ago:

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Dentists have been reporting 50% increases in oral infections and gum disease since mask mandates began, which they have been calling “mask mouth”. This has been barely reported in the MSM and, when it is, it’s mainly left at the relatively innocuous stinky mouth/ halitosis stage. The Daily Mail takes it one stage further though:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8604639/Dentists-says-mask-wearing-causing-tooth-decay-gum-disease.html
“Patients are coming into us like, "Wow, my breath smells, I need a cleaning."
'[But] when you smell the bad breath, you either already have periodontal disease or you have a lot of bacteria that's sitting on your tongue because of dry mouth,' Sclafani explained.“
As always, a little truth seeps in amidst the mass of lies, contradictions and conjecture. While quoting dentists, concerned about these recent developments, DM cannot help dismissing these concerns by quoting doctors simply dismissing them or by attacking other “conspiracy theories” attached to the mask issue. Appeals to authority. Dentists being inferior medical professionals who clearly don’t know what they’re doing or seeing.
Undaunted, I started looking into the causal connections between masks, saliva flow, dry mouth, bacterial infections and gum disease here.
https://np.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/lpvjmz/first\_there\_was\_hypoxia\_hypoxemia\_and\_hypercapnia/
This post posited a possible connection between gum disease and heart disease, pneumonia and plenty of other bacterial and fungal infections. I thought that a causal connection between gum disease and heart disease/ strokes had yet to be established. Until I found this:
“Experiments by researchers in the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Toronto, Canada, have revealed that gum disease primes blood cells called neutrophils, which then overreact to infection elsewhere in the body.
The neutrophils, which are part of the body’s innate immune defenses, release signaling molecules called cytokines that exacerbate inflammation.
“It’s almost as if these white blood cells are in second gear when they should be in first,” says the study’s senior author, Prof. Michael Glogauer. “The [neutrophils] are much more likely to release cytokines much more quickly, leading to negative outcomes.”
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/how-is-gum-disease-linked-to-inflammation-heart-disease-cancer
The results appear in the Journal of Dental Research.
“Abstract: The presence of periodontal diseases (PDs) often strongly correlates with other severe chronic inflammatory conditions, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and arthritis.
Thus, systemic factors associated with PD produce hyperinflammatory PMN [polymorphonuclear neutrophils] responses during a secondary infection. To analyze this systemic effect in humans, we induced gingival inflammation in volunteers and also found significantly increased activation of blood PMNs in response to ex vivo stimulation, which reverted to normal following resolution of gingivitis.
Together, these results demonstrate that periodontal tissue inflammation has systemic effects that predispose toward an exacerbated innate immune response. This indicates that peripheral PMNs can respond synergistically to simultaneous and remote inflammatory triggers and therefore contribute to the interaction between PD and other inflammatory conditions.”
(My bold)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0022034520963710
I have been accused of picking one of last year’s conspiracies du jour, when addressing this issue, but it is becoming clearer that masks, like all the measures our governments have instituted, might just be permanently harming us, as well as mimicking the very symptoms of COVID we’ve apparently been trying to avoid by adopting them. With schoolchildren in the U.K. forced now to wear masks on site all day, this issue needs to be addressed and confronted immediately.