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12 BIGGLESWADE BULLETIN SEPTEMBER 2011 TEL: 01234 843905 EDITORIAL: editorial@biggleswadebulletin.co.ukLETTERS TO THE EDITORIMPLICATIONS OFTHE DEFICITWhat happens if nothingchanges?This answer isn’t as simple as itmight seem, but I will put it to youin such a way that everyone canunderstand.In the very short term, verylittle happens if we don’t addressthe problem. So we had 30 goodyears where global deficit wasfinanced by borrowing.That is in fact part of the problem,because it helps us remaincomplacent. In the short term,your taxes won’t go up, because alot of politicians are dead setagainst tax increases. But largerand larger portions of your taxmoney will go to pay interest onthe debt, rather than currentexpenses. Interest rates will continueto rise. The government is aWHEN we leavethe house, mostof us will look inthe mirror tomake sure ourhair is tidy andour teeth areclean. But howmany of us think about inspectingour gums on a regular basis? Youmay have gleaming white teethand a big confident smile, but it isactually the state of our gums, notour teeth that tells the real story ofour overall health.At some point in our lives, gumdisease, or to give it its correctterm periodontal disease, willaffect about 80% of Britons. If leftuntreated the consequences can besevere. Gum disease nor onlycauses bad breath and problemswith your teeth, but research isalso linking this disease to otherconditions ranging from heart diseaseright through to rheumatoidarthritis and diabetes and can evencause problems in conception!Gum disease occurs whenplaque forms on the teeth and thebacterium irritates the gums. Thiscauses the gums to bleed andbecome inflamed and swollen,which is known as gingivitis. Ifthe symptoms are not spotted theresult can be a loss of teeth causedby the inflammation eating the ligaments,which attach the teeth tothe bones, and in some cases candestroy the actual bone itself.Although gum disease affectsWhat your gums say about your overall healthall ages, it is particularly prevalentin the elderly population becausethey produce less saliva and so thehuge borrower, getting biggerevery month. The amount weborrow impacts interest ratessignificantly. Rising interest rateswill increase deficits. Increaseddeficits necessarily increase thedebt.Increased debt means higherinterest payments.Higher interestpayments create higher deficits.Asthis cycle continues, interest ratesmust rise further.The problem worsensexponentially. At some point thereis a critical mass effect; the government’sappetite for borrowingwill exceed the world economy’ssupply. Then interest rates willsoar, and the entire house of cardsmay well collapse — that’s financialcollapse — worldwide. If thatcollapse can somehow be avoided,at the very least, we will all have topay sharply higher taxes than wehave ever paid, and for a very longtime, have no health care, no pensionsand no subsidised educationand certainly no social care inorder to restore worldwide financialstability.Our children and grandchildrenwill pay for this. We haveborrowed our present and as wecontinue to gamble, we borrowour future, the future of ourchildren and grandchildren, beforethey are even born.Do not expect any governmentto solve this, they can’t. They areafter all, the ones that created theproblem.I can’t make it any simpler thanthis!George Konstantinidis– SandyREFRESHINGI read your August Bulletinyesterday and am writing to sayhow refreshing it was that yourjelly like bacteria can cling to theteeth more easily. A recent surveycarried out by the British Dentalarticles were all reporting somethingpositive. My reaction is notcoloured by all the 'bad' thingsgoing on lately in the country as Ihave felt strongly for years that ifwe reported more of the goodthings going on, the country wouldbe much better off as it would havea more balanced view of the stateof things. So thank you, and withoutwanting to sound in the leastpatronising, keep up the very goodwork.Judith Mooney, – MoggerhangerThe Editor welcomes yourcorrespondence but reserves theabsolute right to edit any submittedmaterial without reference to theauthor. Please send your letters to:Biggleswade Bulletin, 1 Union Park,Triumph Way, Kempston MK427QB or email to: editorial@biggleswadebulletin.co.ukor if youwould like to discuss a futureeditorial please call 01234 843905.Foundation showed that 47% of usdon’t clean our teeth on a regularbasis which is why so many of usfall foul of this distressing disease.Once you get gum disease itdoesn’t just settle in the mouth; thebacteria which has entered theblood stream is then able to travelaround your whole body, leadingto inflammation and damage inother areas including the womb. Astudy in Australia has discoveredthat women with gum disease arelikely to take two months longer toconceive than women with healthyteeth and gums. This is becausethe bacteria from the gum diseasecan cause the lining of the wombto become inflamed which makesit harder for the fertilised egg toimplant itself.The good news is that we don’thave to suffer from gum disease.By establishing a regular oralhealth programme which includesbrushing our teeth twice a day fortwo minutes and flossing we canensure that the bacteria doesn’t getthe opportunity to take hold of ourteeth. Follow this with regular visitsto your dental hygienist to monitoryour oral health and keep yourteeth clean and healthy, you can beconfident that your teeth and gumswill remain in the best of health.For more information aboutoral hygiene and dental care visitwww.ballardandtucker.co.uk or toarrange an appointment callBallard and Tucker on 0844 5769888.