Stopping oral hygiene measures can get the amount of disease in the oral cavity to go up and progress to a far worse oral disease and dental problems. What you need to know is that gum disease and tooth decay or dental caries are responsible for contributing long-term and acute infections such as abscesses. It is a sort of thing that makes you at risk for heart problems and other medical conditions. The human mouth is considered to be a colony of multitudes of bacteria compared to any body area, and many of the bacterial species inside the oral cavity that causes gum disease and forming periodontal pockets. Oral hygiene that is practiced and observed properly can greatly reduce gum diseases and the risk associated with it.