Lifestyles

Your lifestyle choices can ruin your smile, make you fat and cause your heart cells to die. You can damage and destroy the cells of vital organs in your body by the way you live your life. Scientists at QMUL are working on ways of understanding, preventing and treating this damage to your cells.

Gum disease: killing smiles

Sometimes unfriendly bacteria overcome the friendly bacteria in your mouth and cause gum disease.

Dissolving jawbones: rattling teeth

If you don't brush away the bacteria stuck to your teeth, they will eventually damage the gums and jawbones and cause your teeth to fall out.

Heart disease: new medicines to save lives

Hard working heart cells need a good supply of blood to keep your heart pumping.