Apart from muscle pain, brain fog, fatigue and hair loss, people who have overcome Covid-19 could lose their teeth without pain or bleeding
New effects of the coronavirus have emerged daily both in people who suffer from it, and in those who have already managed to overcome it, now it has been discovered that such a lethal virus could affect your teeth.
As reported by The New York Times, a new effect has been reported in patients who have managed to overcome Covid-19, and fight against the consequences such as muscle pain, brain fog, fatigue, hair loss, even memory and feet. swollen. Now it is said that it could leave you without teeth, they discover new effect.
This was discovered thanks to the testimony of Farah Khemili, a 43-year-old woman who survived the coronavirus and who alerted doctors and researchers to other blood damage after the disease.
Although she had already overcome this condition, Farah noticed that one of her teeth was loose while she was enjoying a mint candy, the next day, the tooth came out of her mouth, without blood or pain.
After the tooth fell out, Khemili’s husband joined the online group of Covid-19 survivors, Survivor Cop, where the recovered share their experiences. What would be your surprise to find the testimony of several people who had noticed changes of color to gray and yellow in their teeth, sensitive gums and tooth loss without pain.
Within the group, founder Diana Berrent also shared what she experienced with her 12-year-old son after he suffered from the virus, the minor also lost one of his permanent teeth while he was recovering from the disease.
Joining this story were two more people who lost teeth by eating ice cream or while flossing. Although many specialists doubt the relationship between Covid-19 and the unusual loss of teeth without pain or sacred, Dr. William Li, president and founder of the Angiogenesis Foundation, specializing in blood problems; accepts the probability that the virus damages the blood vessels that keep teeth alive and for this reason there is no pain or bleeding when falling.
Given the 60 million infected worldwide and more than 1 million cases in Mexico, researchers on Covid-19 and its new effects do not seem to stop.
Patients may be contributing new findings, doctors and dentists must cooperate to understand the long-term effects of Covid-19 on teeth
Now it is hoped that Farah Khemili’s testimony will serve to alert those who have recovered or suffer from Covid-19 not to neglect their dental health, since although she suffered from problems with her teeth before she became ill, there are case reports, such as that of Diana Berrent, a young person with optimal oral health but who, after overcoming the coronavirus, was surprised to lose her teeth.