Stop Gum Disease Before It Affects Your Health
So we all know that gum health is tied to your overall health and well-being and so those patients who come to us with gum disease, we want to make sure that we are addressing that root problem. So we want to make sure that we’re completing the deeper cleanings that may be necessary to solve the gum issue in order to both increase that gum health and increase the overall health of our patients. Oftentimes gum disease isn’t necessarily known by the patient other than there can be symptoms of bleeding when you’re brushing.
So if you spit out your toothpaste at night or in the morning and there is kind of red in that then we know that your gums are bleeding. It can be patients who say that their gums bleed every time that they floss or if they’re just not flossing at all you can have you know symptoms of bad breath. You can have visible buildup on those teeth and so you can start to see just those gums getting red and irritated.
These are often the major signs of gum disease. We always like to catch it obviously before it gets to that problem. So whenever you come in for your cleanings we’ll always take measurements of that gum health.
All of your teeth should have a small pocket around the tooth and that gum tissue and we don’t want that pocket to be over three millimeters. So we want to make sure that gum tissue is tight around that tooth and we’re not getting that increased pocketing. There are those patients who will come into the office and it’s been years since they’ve seen anyone.
They know that there’s a problem especially with their gum tissue but they’ve been hesitant to treat it and we do welcome those patients. We want to help get a plan together to get them back into health. So we definitely try to sort of break down the problem and make a set plan of what steps that we can take from you know your initial cleaning to possibly a few deeper cleanings to then once we get you back into health what that recall schedule should be so that we don’t end up back where we started.