It’s well established that gum disease and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are strongly linked. But what wasn’t known, until a recent study, was that the two churn through a vicious cycle, feeding off each other and triggering damaging inflammation.
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Q&A: Vicious cycle? How gum disease and rheumatoid arthritis feed off one another
January 20, 2026
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