What you can do if you have gum disease?

Answer 1

Brush your teeth and use floss and mouthwash twice a day!! This will only help ease the pain of it, but the only way to get rid of gingivitis is to have your teeth removed

Clarification:

Having your teeth pulled is absolutely NOT the only way to get rid of gingivitis. There are several types of treatment and/or surgery for this gum disease that does not involve pulling your teeth. And if the gingivitis is not severe, it can sometimes be treated by a "deep root" cleaning, which is done at your dentist's office under mild sedation. The deep root cleaning is where they clean your teeth well below the gum line, which is often all that is needed to treat it.

To prevent gingivitis, brush and floss daily. Brushing alone will not clean between the teeth, nor will it remove the plaque that builds up at the gumline, which results in gingivitis.

Answer 2

If you don't know too much about gingivitis, don't feel bad. A recent poll showed that 60% of adults know little about gum disease, its symptoms, causes, treatments and consequences. Gingivitis, the top dental problem for people over 18, is the mildest form of gum disease. This early stage of gum disease develops when bacteria build up between the gums (gingiva) and the base of the teeth they surround.

Gingivitis is usually caused by the improper cleaning of teeth. If you've only got gingivitis, consider yourself lucky. Gingivitis acts as an early warning signal that you could be heading for serious dental health problems. In fact, Gingivitis is the baby brother of Periodontitis. (inflammation around the tooth) This more severe form of gum disease is usually connected with the loss of teeth.
What Symptoms does Gingivitis present?
Here's the good news. Most symptoms are mild:

• Gums are moderately inflamed

• Gums are sensitive to touch
• Gums bleed easily while brushing, flossing, or probing
• Gums might itch
• Bad breath might be present

Now, the bad news. Most symptoms are mild. Because Gingivitis symptoms are easy to ignore people often do just that. Many gingivitis patients don't even know they have Gingivitis because they have no obvious symptoms. As a result, their disease can progress silently to the more serious dental disease, Periodontitis, without warning.

How Do You Find Out if You Have Gingivitis? Visit your dentist twice a year. During the exam, your gums will be assessed for Gingivitis - bleeding, swelling, and firmness. In addition, your dental professional will check plaque and tartar build-up above and below the gum line.

What Gingivitis Treatments Are Available? Early Gingivitis is reversible with professional treatment and regular oral care at home. The dentist or hygienist will probably help reduce the current buildup of tartar by scaling the teeth. Scaling removes tartar and plaque from the surface of the infected teeth.

Reversing Gingivitis is all about daily plaque control - essentially sound oral hygiene. That means, in most cases, stopping the plaque in your mouth is really in your own hands. Brush every day. Floss every day. Period. Your dentist or oral hygienist may recommend fluoride toothpaste or tartar reduction rinses. Colgate Total is approved by the FDA for helping to prevent gingivitis by reducing plaque and tartar.

Dental professionals recommend oral irrigation as a great way to really clean teeth and gums. Oral irrigators get what toothbrushes and floss don't, so plaque and tartar never come back. Oral irrigators flood the mouth with a jet of water under pressure to flush offending food particles and bacteria from the mouth.

And now there's fresh evidence that Gingivitis responds well to oral irrigators. Flossing could work. But, most people just don't floss enough. Only 35% floss and only 2-15% floss every day. Flossing is too much trouble, too unpleasant.

Gingivitis is preventable and Gingivitis is reversible.

Answer 3

Up to 95% of Americans unknowingly suffer from periodontal (gum) disease. Unfortunately periodontal disease not only destroys teeth, gums and the bone in your mouth, but it can also contribute to conditions like heart attack, stroke, Diabetes, premature births and low birth weights.

The public has many misconceptions about oral health, one being that teeth are not meant to last an entire lifetime. In truth, no other part of the human body is as able to recover from disease. Yet it is "common knowledge" that we begin to get cavities at a young age, and our teeth continue to deteriorate until old age, when they must be replaced with a set of dentures.

BUT, in the absence of gum disease, teeth and gums have every chance of remaining healthy and strong for your entire life. The rest of your body can be healthier too!

So what causes periodontal disease? When we eat food, it begins to break down with the saliva in our mouth, resulting in a bacterial by-product called plaque biofilm. This biofilm settles down into the gums in a pocket around the tooth. If left in the mouth, this plaque causes an immune response from the body to attack the area where it is located. This can lead to swollen, bleeding gums, loss of gum tissue, bone and eventually teeth. As the gums pull away from the tooth, the receding tissue becomes obvious, leaving exposed root surfaces.

To combat bleeding gums and recession, one must be able to clean under the gum line where the pockets between the teeth and gums house this infectious biofilm. Unfortunately, simple brushing and flossing is physically unable to reach the bottom of even the deepest pockets or the grooves between roots of teeth. Rinses and creams will only treat the superficial symptoms, not the underlying infection.

The most common irrigators are from Waterpik or OralBreeze and can be found on amazon.