Bleeding gums: note

In my practice, dentists are often faced with complaints of patients to bleeding gums and pain when brushing your teeth: the problem and treat adult patients and children. Bleeding can be caused by various reasons, including injuries and gums during oral hygiene or biting hard foods. However, most often it is a sign of a serious disease - gingivitis or periodontitis.

Brushing teeth

Next to the tooth

The word "periodontal" literally means "around the tooth." It is a complex tissue that surrounds and holds the tooth in the alveolus: gums, ligament, which connects the root of the tooth to the well, the alveolar processes and the substance of the tooth root. When the disease of the periodontal tissue or tissue can suffer all that in severe cases it leads to tooth loss because it violates his fixation.

According to the World Health Organization, 95% of the adult population and 80% of children have some form of periodontal disease. In mild it may be gingivitis - the defeat of the surface tissue of the gums, in severe cases - periodontitis.

Doctors warn

Someone may say: "Modern dentistry works wonders, so nothing to be afraid of tooth loss - it can be replaced by a prosthesis." Indeed, modern dental implants are of high quality. but periodontal disease It is not only dangerous for the safety of the teeth.

For example, US scientists believe that people suffering from the defeat of the gum tissue, faced with the risk of cardiovascular disease. As a result, blood tests of these patients was found high content of lipoproteins, the presence of which is fraught with heart attacks and strokes. Another study found a link between gum disease and Alzheimer's disease. The bacterium that is present in inflamed gums, was found in the brain tissue of patients with this disease - researchers suggest that she could get to the bloodstream. British scientists have found a link between gum disease and the development of erectile dysfunction: as part of the research revealed that more than half of men with sexual problems suffer gum disease.

What is the reason?

The cause of gum disease are microorganisms that live in the mouth. If you do not brush your teeth or do it carefully enough, the bacteria begin to multiply actively penetrate between the tooth and gum. As a result of their destructive activities generate free radicals - charged ions, which damage cell membranes. This process is reminiscent of an avalanche - the destruction of the cells causes the formation of new free radicals, affects not only the tissues around the tooth, but the tooth itself.

What you should pay attention to time to begin treatment:

• the appearance of bad breath;
• constant presence of plaque on the teeth;
• swelling and edema of the gums, change shape or color of the gums, tooth neck stripping;
• tooth mobility;
• pain and bleeding while eating or brushing your teeth.

Unfortunately, the nature of the disease is that patients themselves are often worsen the condition. Increased sensitivity and soreness of teeth and gums leads to the fact that people are starting to spare them during cleaning. Plaque is removed bad and deteriorating condition of the gums.

Health Recipes

Ideally, the agent used for the treatment of periodontal disease, it should be an effective antioxidant (for combating free radicals) and simultaneously provide anti-inflammatory effects. Plus restore tissue: if you start to treat gingivitis or periodontal disease at an early stage, it is possible to prevent exposure of the neck of the tooth and a serious degeneration of the gum tissue.

A drug that has a high capacity for tissue repair, a long and well established in the treatment of patients after heart attacks and strokes - Mexidol. In these patients, it is used to reduce necrosis, or tissue ischemia. Properties Mexidol used the creators of special toothpaste Mexidol Dent (MEXIDOL dent), which contributes to the improvement of the tissues of the tooth and gums. Under its influence, not only decreases bleeding and sore gums and teeth, but also swelling of the gums, leaving the problem of halitosis. The disease can be stopped at an early stage and prevent tooth loss.

It is important to remember that any remedial measures in this field must begin after cleansing the teeth from the stone, and if necessary - after the reorganization of gum pockets. However, without an effective antioxidant therapy complete restoration is not possible.

P.S.
Unfortunately, periodontitis - an insidious disease that can be associated with other pathologies. For example, inflammation of the gums may indicate the development of osteoporosis, a violation of the thyroid gland or development of diabetes mellitus. That is why restoring the health of the oral cavity, and consult with other specialists.

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