Dr. Victoria Sampson

We now understand that more than 90% of diseases can be traced back to an imbalanced microbiome. If we zone into just the oral microbiome, it's got connections with infertility, heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer's, rheumatoid arthritis... Und die Liste geht weiter, Erektildysfunktion. Und was auch sehr interessant ist, zurück zu deiner Frage, ist da ein neuer Interesse daran?

In den letzten Jahren haben wir tatsächlich gezeigt, dass es eine starke Verbindung und Causation zwischen dem Oral-Mikrobiom und generellen Krankheiten gibt. Während früher, vielleicht vor fünf Jahren, gab es viele Art von, ist das eine Korrelation? Ist es nur so, dass es die gleichen Risikofaktoren gibt wie bei Gumm- und Herzkrankheiten, zum Beispiel bei Smoking.

In den letzten Jahren haben wir tatsächlich gezeigt, dass es eine starke Verbindung und Causation zwischen dem Oral-Mikrobiom und generellen Krankheiten gibt. Während früher, vielleicht vor fünf Jahren, gab es viele Art von, ist das eine Korrelation? Ist es nur so, dass es die gleichen Risikofaktoren gibt wie bei Gumm- und Herzkrankheiten, zum Beispiel bei Smoking.

Und jetzt sehen wir, dass es nicht nur eine Korrelation ist. Es gibt eine starke Kausation zwischen den beiden.

Und jetzt sehen wir, dass es nicht nur eine Korrelation ist. Es gibt eine starke Kausation zwischen den beiden.

I am Victoria Sampson. I'm a dentist. I do a lot on the oral microbiome. People call me the saliva queen. That's my name on the streets.

I am Victoria Sampson. I'm a dentist. I do a lot on the oral microbiome. People call me the saliva queen. That's my name on the streets.

Originally I trained as a dentist, and that's six years of training. I would say I was a pretty traditional, conventional dentist as I graduated. I'd done some training at the Karolinska Institute during my university. Das Karolinska-Institut ist die beste Dental-Schule der Welt. Aber sie konzentrieren sich sehr auf die Bauch-Body-Vereinigung, auf das Testen von Saliva.

Originally I trained as a dentist, and that's six years of training. I would say I was a pretty traditional, conventional dentist as I graduated. I'd done some training at the Karolinska Institute during my university. Das Karolinska-Institut ist die beste Dental-Schule der Welt. Aber sie konzentrieren sich sehr auf die Bauch-Body-Vereinigung, auf das Testen von Saliva.

Sie dachten, wenn man zum Doktor geht und einen Blut-Test bekommt, sollte man auch einen Saliva-Test bekommen. Auch aus der Dental-Schule hatte ich das im Hinterkopf, aber ich hatte noch kein Training, also wurde ich nur Dentalistin. Ich arbeitete halb in der NHS, halb privat. As time evolved, I then shifted to fully private. Then when COVID happened, I started doing a lot of research.

Sie dachten, wenn man zum Doktor geht und einen Blut-Test bekommt, sollte man auch einen Saliva-Test bekommen. Auch aus der Dental-Schule hatte ich das im Hinterkopf, aber ich hatte noch kein Training, also wurde ich nur Dentalistin. Ich arbeitete halb in der NHS, halb privat. As time evolved, I then shifted to fully private. Then when COVID happened, I started doing a lot of research.

All the dental practices were closed across the country. I thought that was crazy, because basically the government was saying dental practices or dentistry is not a necessity. I thought that was insane. I decided to do a lot of research. I wrote a paper which was connecting oral health with COVID complications.

All the dental practices were closed across the country. I thought that was crazy, because basically the government was saying dental practices or dentistry is not a necessity. I thought that was insane. I decided to do a lot of research. I wrote a paper which was connecting oral health with COVID complications.

So what we found was that patients who had poor oral health or gum disease were at a much higher risk of COVID complications. And then that evolved into me doing some studies with universities and hospitals. But the issue was that we couldn't go into hospitals and check people's teeth and gums because they had COVID.

So what we found was that patients who had poor oral health or gum disease were at a much higher risk of COVID complications. And then that evolved into me doing some studies with universities and hospitals. But the issue was that we couldn't go into hospitals and check people's teeth and gums because they had COVID.

So instead what we did was we would collect their saliva and we would take it to the lab and we had this beautiful snapshot of what was going on in a patient's mouth at that moment in time, just from their saliva. So we did a lot of research and we found that COVID sufferers or patients who had gum disease were nine times more likely to have COVID complications.

So instead what we did was we would collect their saliva and we would take it to the lab and we had this beautiful snapshot of what was going on in a patient's mouth at that moment in time, just from their saliva. So we did a lot of research and we found that COVID sufferers or patients who had gum disease were nine times more likely to have COVID complications.

But also what I took from that was that, why aren't we using saliva more regularly? Why don't we use this in a more commercial aspect and for our patients? So after that, I devoted a lot of time into developing oral microbiome testing. We had gut microbiome testing, you've got urinary microbiome, every single microbiome has a test, but the oral microbiome didn't really have one.

But also what I took from that was that, why aren't we using saliva more regularly? Why don't we use this in a more commercial aspect and for our patients? So after that, I devoted a lot of time into developing oral microbiome testing. We had gut microbiome testing, you've got urinary microbiome, every single microbiome has a test, but the oral microbiome didn't really have one.

So I built one of the first oral microbiome tests in Europe, and that was a couple of years ago, and then now have come out and kind of left and created my own one about a couple of weeks ago.