Losing Hair? Alopecia Tied To Dental Health

In a recent NBC report, researchers claim to have found that some hair loss cases (alopecia) were actually closely tied to having infections of the teeth.

"We have found that bald patches caused by tooth infection are not always in the same place. They normally appear on a line projected from the dental infection and can thus can be located on the face at the level of the maxillary teeth, above a line through the lip-angle to the scalp, beard, or even to the eyebrow. Nevertheless, they can also be located far from infection outbreak," researchers Gil Montoya and Cutando Soriano said in a news release.

The researchers also said some cases of alopecia may be attributed to auto-immune problems, meaning the body attacks hair follicles as if they were invaders.