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Plenty of research has now linked heart disease with periodontal disease, suggesting that if you have one of these conditions you may also be at risk for the other - and that treating one may help treat the other as well. Recently a Finnish study in the journal Oral Health found that people with periodontal disease who were on cholesterol-lowering statin drugs had less severe gum disease than those not taking them. Statins are known to have an anti-inflammatory effect, so the finding was not a complete surprise, since gum disease is characterized by inflammation.