Mouth Organ BBC Ratio 4 by Caroline Steel & Alice Lipscombe-Southwell

Description

Other than brushing your teeth every day, how often do you really think about your mouth?

That hole in the front of your face is the ideal place to shovel food and drink, but it might be worth giving it a little more consideration.

Evidence is increasingly showing that the state of your mouth can have wide-ranging impacts on the rest of your body. An unhealthy mouth can increase your chances of developing dementia, diabetes and other diseases.

Why, then, is dentistry and medicine kept so separate, when the mouth and the body are so intrinsically linked?

Over the course of this programme, join Caroline Steel as she delves into the world inside our mouths, and unpicks the ways in which better oral healthcare could improve our wellbeing. Along the way, she speaks to Iain Chapple, a professor of periodontology at the University of Birmingham; Dr Zoe Brookes, a dentist and oral microbiome expert at the University of Plymouth; and Dr Graham Lloyd-Jones, a radiologist at Salisbury Hospital.

Presenter: Caroline Steel
Producer: Alice Lipscombe-Southwell
Executive producer: Jeremy Grange