Vikki 🤗, D.D.S.

SAU ‘20 | Columbia Dental ‘24

[Vikki 🤗, D.D.S. @vikki12888]

🎀Every part is important, so we inspect every stage!Tiny positive daily routines slowly reshape your entire life stick to balanced healthy rituals patiently and watch meaningful gentle self transformation unfold gradually

[Vikki 🤗, D.D.S. @vikki12888]

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[Vikki 🤗, D.D.S. @vikki12888]

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[Vikki 🤗, D.D.S. @vikki12888]

🥨Sky-patterned blanketCoffee with vanillaStop envying others’ seemingly smooth polished life tracks and focus fully on polishing your own personal ability. Everyone’s shining exterior hides countless unseen struggles and repeated failed attempts behind the scenes.

[Vikki 🤗, D.D.S. @vikki12888]

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[𝓔𝓶 ♡ @emkenobi]

This photo belongs in the history books

[Healthy Alfred ☄️ @HealthyAlfred]

The bacteria bleeding from your gums is colonizing your brain right now.

They found it in Alzheimer’s patients’ brain tissue - the exact same bacteria from gum disease.

P. gingivalis (the bacteria causing bleeding gums) was identified in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients.

Not just “present” - actively colonizing brain tissue and producing toxic proteins (gingipains) that correlated with tau pathology and amyloid plaque formation.

Study on mice: Oral P. gingivalis infection → brain colonization → increased amyloid production (the plaques destroying Alzheimer’s patients’ brains).
This isn’t correlation. They found the bacteria FROM YOUR GUMS physically inside brain tissue.

The mechanism:
Bleeding gums = open wound → bacteria enter bloodstream → travel to brain → colonize tissue → produce gingipains (neurotoxic) → trigger amyloid plaque formation → neuroinflammation → Alzheimer’s pathology develops

Cardiovascular disease study: P. gingivalis also found in atherosclerotic plaques (arterial blockages causing heart attacks).

Stroke study: Periodontal disease + dental caries increased stroke risk by 86-158%.

Your bleeding gums aren’t just a dental problem.

They’re a bacterial highway to your brain and arteries.

50% of adults over 30 have gum disease (P. gingivalis infection).

Most don’t know until bacteria already spread systemically.

Mastic gum kills P. gingivalis before it enters your bloodstream.

Study: 1 gram daily mastic gum:
→ P. gingivalis: suppressed
→ Gingival bleeding: significantly reduced
→ Gum inflammation: decreased

My gums bled every time I brushed.

Started mastic gum 1g daily.

Week 3: Bleeding stopped completely.

Dentist asked what changed - gums went from inflamed to healthy in one visit.

The bacteria causing Alzheimer’s and heart disease lives in your mouth.

Every time your gums bleed, you’re letting it spread.

1 gram daily. Kills bacteria before it colonizes your brain.

[Zach W. Lambert @ZachWLambert]

“It’s hard to convince people that a God they can’t see loves them, when a church they can see doesn’t seem to like them.”

- John Alan Turner

[Sam Ghali, M.D. @EM_RESUS]

A 17-year-old boy was rushed to the ER by his brothers struggling to breathe...

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[menace morales @danieluhmorales]

this has been my dream forever.

[Kobe @_DominicJ]

History repeats itself, clean sweep. Jamaican dominance! 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

[Polo @MrPolo_]

Barber TikTok is the greatest thing on the internet LOL

[Powered by the Culture @poweredculture]

if yall wanna fight me just say that

[Alexis Grace @alexissgraceee]

Please. I beg. In light of grad szn.😭

[Natasha @NatashaMLee]

Being Black is NOT a predictor for health disparities.

Anti-Black racism IS a predictor for health disparities.

I’m tired of the racist literature. TIRED.

[Vikki 🤗, D.D.S. @vikki12888]

@Salas_OG You played a dangerous game and lost

[Kwii @ceo_of_ants]

Helpful flow chart

[Saeed Jones @theferocity]

Meanwhile, the motherfuckers that killed Breonna Taylor are free and getting book deals. This verdict ain’t nowhere near enough. No verdict could be.

[Cory Booker @CoryBooker]

This verdict is justice served—but it is not justice for George Floyd. True justice would be a country where George Floyd would still be alive today. True justice demands action—it demands change & that we do everything we can to stop this from happening again & again & again.