Bleeding Gums, What Do I Do?

Gum disease (bleeding gums)can be caused by several factors. Some of those factors are poor or below average oral hygiene, bad margins on crowns, trapped food or debris or systemic issues such as chemotherapy for cancer. The most common cause is poor oral hygiene. There are several things you can do:

Brush daily with the proper toothbrush. If you use a hand toothbrush, you need to brush down on the upper teeth and up on the lower teeth.

If you use a rechargeable electric toothbrush (not battery) then hold and move ( no up, down or scrubbing motions). Do not scrub horizontally with any toothbrush as it will then cause erosion of the tooth at the gum line.

Floss once a day. You must use the proper technique or you may cut your gum tissue.

If you smoke cigarettes, consider stopping since over 90% of the smokers have gum disease in some form. In fact, the use of tobacco in any form causes gum disease in over 90% of the users.

CoQ10 in the liquid form mixed in water as a swish and swallow mouth rinse will eliminate bleeding within days and stimulate your immune system into action.. This in combination with good brushing and routine dental cleaning will restore your tissue to health.

Regular professional dental cleanings, and scaling as necessary, is imperative.

Remove any filling or crowns with rough margins, or heavy metal fillings (better known as “silver fillings” or “mercury fillings”). Rough areas are like fine sandpaper against the tissue. Mercury or other heavy metals also cause irritation to the tissue and may cause bleeding.

If you have any non-precious crowns with heavy metals, they may need to be removed so that the tissue can heal without irritants present.

If there has been bone loss due to the about factors, laser surgery of the gum tissue may be needed. But that decision would not be made immediately. The first thing to do is Change bad habits and evaluate from there.