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What is Advanced Gum Disease?

If you don't know too much about the advanced gum disease, Periodontitis, don't feel bad.

A recent poll showed that 60% of adults know little about advanced gum disease, its symptoms, causes, treatments and consequences.

Advanced gum disease usually called Periodontitis (inflammation around the tooth) is sometimes confused with Gingivitis, the top dental problem for people over 18. Gingivitis acts as an early warning signal that you could be heading for the serious dental health problem - advanced gum disease. Periodontitis, or advanced gum disease is usually connected with loss of teeth.

Advanced gum disease is usually caused by the improper cleaning of teeth.

What Symptoms Does Advanced Gum Disease Present?
Advanced gum disease is like Gingivitis on steroids. While Gingivitis is about irritation, advanced gum disease is about separation - your teeth from your gums and eventually, you from your teeth.

  • Teeth may look longer as gums pull away from teeth
  • Teeth don't fit together as before
  • Permanent teeth get loose
  • Gums bleed easily while brushing, flossing, or probing
  • Gums might itch
  • Bad breath might be present

How Do You Get Advanced Gum Disease?
Most of the time, advanced gum disease is caused by poor oral hygiene. Teeth and gums need to be kept clean.

And normally this disease creeps up on you, beginning as reversible gingivitis and progressing to irreversible advanced gum disease.

While heredity and other medical factors can influence the development of advanced gum disease, the major cause is poor oral hygiene. Food trapped under the gums combines with bacteria to create plaque, a "toxic stew" that irritates the gums and makes them bleed. This colorless film of sticky material containing food particles, bacteria, and saliva attaches itself to the tooth above and below the gum line encouraging advanced gum disease and tooth decay.

Then plaque, the "toxic stew," hardens into tartar (calculus) in just 24 hours. Each day this "contaminated crust" grows. That's why you need to remove plaque every day no matter what to avoid advanced gum disease. Only a dental professional can remove tartar.

Why Should You Worry About Advanced Gum Disease?
Untreated, gingivitis leads to advanced gum disease. Gingivitis can mean minor blood loss; advanced gum disease on the other hand can mean major tooth loss.

Evidence is mounting of potential links between advanced gum disease and more serious health concerns. Healthy immune systems normally fight off the bacteria developing in the mouth. When this protection is compromised in any way, the added bacteria in the bloodstream appear to increase the risk of stroke or heart disease.

There also seems to be a connection between advanced gum disease and Preeclampsia, a condition of hypertension occurring in pregnancy, typically indicated by fluid retention and high blood pressure.

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

What Advanced Gum Disease Treatments Are Available?
Preventing advanced gum disease is easy - treating it is not. It's a brush now or brush later proposition.

Advanced gum disease is manageable with professional treatment and regular oral care at home. Various treatment options are available depending on the degree of advanced gum disease:

  • Scaling removes tartar and plaque from the surface of the infected teeth.
  • Root planning smoothes tooth surfaces to promote the reconnection of gum tissue to the teeth. This approach reduces the pocket that has formed between soft gum tissue and the hard tooth exterior.
  • In Flap Surgery, the specialist lifts back the gums to remove tartar and diseased tissue from the root level.
  • Soft tissue grafts augment gums by stitching grafted tissue form the roof of the mouth over the affected area.
  • Bone surgery reshapes the bone near the infected tooth making it harder for bacteria to grow.

These interventions treat the symptoms of advanced gum disease, but preventing future advanced gum disease is up to the patient.

Managing advanced gum disease 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 advanced gum disease by reducing plaque and tartar.

Dental professionals recommend oral irrigation as a great way to really clean teeth and gums. Oral irrigators get what tooth brushes and floss don't, so plaque and tartar and the resulting advanced gum disease 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 advanced gum disease responds well to oral irrigators.

According to http://www.perioreports.com/wed-reports.htm

"It's time oral irrigation is considered a viable alternative to flossing. The fact that oral irrigation with water is more effective in reducing inflammation and bleeding than rinsing with chlorhexidine is a major finding. Oral irrigation was a good alternative for those who didn't floss, but now it should be considered a regular part of oral hygiene for everyone."

How Do Oral Breeze Products Treat Advanced Gum Disease?
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.

1000's of Oral Breeze customers love their Oral Breeze. They brush away food and then breeze away plaque. It feels so good to breeze.

Brush n' breeze daily to treat advanced gum disease. Brush n' breeze daily to prevent advanced gum disease.


Every day, brush after meals and breeze before bed.

If you've got advanced gum disease or don't want to get it, be sure to BRUSH n' BREEZE

 

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