Bad-breath link with cancer and ulcers

Bacteria that cause stomach ulcers and cancer are living in the mouths of some people with bad breath, even though they did not show signs of stomach illnesses, research published in the Journal of Medical Microbiology has found. Doctor Nao Suzuki from Fukuoka Dental College in Fukuoka, Japan, discovered infection by the bacterium helicobacter pylori, carried by over 90% of people in the developing world and 20% to 80% of people in the developed world, was a possible cause of peptic ulcers and gastric cancers. More recent research has also suggested that the human mouth, home to over 60...