What Toxins Have You Been Exposed To? Your Baby Teeth May Hold the Answer
Baby teeth have more value than just the sentimental attachment. Baby teeth have the potential to act as a health record.
Key takeaways:
- Baby teeth have been described as biological hard drives.
- The teeth form rings of growth on a daily basis; each ring encodes information about exposures occurring that day.
- Baby teeth can reveal all the things that an individual has been exposed to such as stress hormones and environmental toxins such as lead and pesticides.
Arora’s work is part of an emerging field of study focused on the exposome, a term coined in 2005 to refer to the totality of health-affecting exposures that a person experiences.
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