What to do if you have bleeding gums? What to treat and what are the causes of this phenomenon, excites everyone who has encountered it.
Firstly, you need to understand that you can’t let the situation drift, as this is fraught with bad consequences. Without the advice of a dentist, it is undesirable to use any drugs, but it happens that there is no way to see a doctor immediately. In this case, you can use some folk remedies that for centuries have been helping humanity to solve such health problems.
Gums bleed heavily : what to do?
Initially, you can try to analyze the situation in order to establish the causes of bleeding gums. There may be several.
As a rule, the irregularity of hygiene procedures leads to the occurrence of inflammatory processes. As a result, the gums bleed. "How to treat the disease in a similar situation?" - the question is secondary. First of all, the dentist must remove the tartar , which is very quickly formed from plaque. Then the problem can be dealt with even with rinse solutions.
Often the cause of bleeding is excessive zeal while using dental floss or other mechanical damage.
If the gum bleeds under the crown, you must definitely visit a specialist. Often, the mistakes of doctors in prosthetics of dental units lead to similar complications. For example, a deep landing of the crown, while the gum pocket becomes pathological. Or lack of contact points with adjacent dental units. This forms an inflammatory focus, due to which the gum bleeds. How to treat her? Basically, you have to remove the crown, after which it is already possible to fix the problem.
It is worth noting that not all causes lie in the oral cavity. Hormonal changes (puberty, pregnancy, diabetes) can also make the gums loose and prone to bleeding.
Gum looseness can be caused by an unbalanced diet, smoking and alcoholism, certain medications, and even an allergic reaction to any dental material.
Rinse Recipes
Rinsing with decoctions of herbs in many situations can strengthen the gum tissue, stop the inflammatory process and relieve unpleasant symptoms of the disease. Nature has given us plants such as chamomile, sage, calendula and
oak bark. All these herbs can and should be brewed both together and separately, and used to treat diseases of the oral cavity.
Prepare a decoction in the following proportion: 1 tbsp. l dry herbs or a mixture of several of the above herbs is poured with a glass of boiling water and simmer for about 10 minutes in a water bath. After which it is necessary that the broth is infused for 3 hours. Filter the finished medicine and use it to rinse your mouth. Procedures can be repeated even every hour. Carefully use a decoction of oak bark, as it strongly stains the teeth.
These recipes can be used temporarily (until you get an appointment with a specialist) or when the reason why the gums are bleeding has already been established. How to treat a similar problem, you need to determine only after the diagnosis.