The questions that cardiologists should ask are: when was the last time you visited the dentist, and if your gums bleed, he said.

In our hospital we have a protocol that requires that each person who will undergo cardiac surgery have to go through our department to receive the guarantee that the surgical process can continue, he said.

Periodontal disease is destructive, destroys all the soft tissues of the mouth, and then the bone. But that does not end there, after the accompanying bacteria goes into the bloodstream and from that moment is when it affects the heart. Therefore, the patient is prone to any infection, he reflected.

Therefore, I am in Havana, the province that I left at the age of seven, to talk with specialists from different regions of the world, because there are many studies that confirm the relationship between gum diseases and heart disease, she said.

To a question about the meaning of the reunion with her land, she answered that it is spectacular.

'I returned to Cuba when I was 13, but - growing in the United States - my vision was different. Now, to be a mature woman is very different. '

Currently, I am the first Latina in the history of my department at the Mayo Clinic. But, I really have to confess that it is an honor to see where I was born, and where my roots are from.

It was moved and happy at the same time to understand where those desires to fight come from, and to not give up, she concluded.