Many Asian people suffer gum disease due to extra or fused dental roots, according to the recent medical report in Taiwan. The discovery was made by a team of dentists in a hospital in Taiwan after analyzing gum disease patients at the hospital’s Dentistry Department. They found out that many Taiwanese have extra or fused roots for the first molars of their lower jaw, resulting in thinner gums that make their alveolar bones more prone to infection or injury caused by improper brushing. The result found that 27% of the 197 gum-disease patients at the hospital had an extra root in the first molar on one side of their lower jaw, and 90% of these people also had an extra root in the first molar on the opposite side of their lower jaw. The team have cited research data from abroad that showed that people from many nations, including Chinese, Japanese, native Americans and Inuits have similar problems.
