Hello friends, in today's video and in the next few videos I will talk about gum diseases. First of all, bleeding gums is a problem I encounter very often in my clinic. Many patients suffer from this complaint, and ninety percent of our society suffers from this condition. Why do gums bleed, how do we detect it and ultimately what is its treatment? Today let's talk about these a little with you.
Our gums bleed because of local and systemic reasons. Systemic reasons, that is, the situation where certain diseases in the body also show symptoms in the gums, I will explain in a different video. Today I will explain what the local causes are, why our gums bleed depending on the conditions in the mouth.
The most basic local cause of gum bleeding is bacterial plaque. Bacterial plaque is colonies of bacteria formed by food and food residues remaining on the tooth surface. If they are not removed, over time they turn into tartar. Bacterial plaque matures and turns into tartar in two ways: How? One is at the level that we can see on the tooth, above the gum; and the other settles under the gum and forms subgingival tartar. In all 3 situations, that is, whether the bacterial plaque is not yet mature, or has matured and turned into tartar, whether visible on the surface or deep, it causes gum bleeding.
So how do we prevent this gum bleeding, how do we treat it? First of all, we need to do home care in the right way. What is this home care? Home care means that we need to brush our teeth for 2 minutes with a medium-hard or soft brush, from red to white, that is, from the gum toward our tooth, in a sweeping manner. With this we have not completely provided our oral hygiene, only sixty percent of our oral hygiene is cleaned. What is the remaining 40 percent? That is, a serious proportion in my opinion, half is not cleaned; that is tongue cleaning and interdental cleaning. How do we do interdental cleaning? We need to do it by using dental floss, interdental brushes or water flossers, and clean the tongue with tongue brushes or a separate brush. In this way, by providing our oral hygiene, we prevent tartar formation at the beginning.
In the presence of tartar we get professional help. As dentists, we try to clean with special instruments the tartar on top and inside the gum. Sometimes advanced surgeries may be required in advanced cases. In this case what do I do? I open a flap. That is, I open the tissues around the tooth, try to reach the tartar on the root surface, and then close the area with suitable stitches. Sometimes this can be insufficient, because as I explained at the beginning, while tartar settles on the root surface, it advances by causing material loss there. It starts with gum recession at the beginning, then begins to advance inward by pushing the bone or eroding the bone. We want to regain the lost tissues. In this case, after removing the tartar, we try to regain the soft and hard tissue we lost by applying what we call advanced surgeries, guided regenerative treatments. That is why we recommend a dentist check-up every six months even if our gums do not bleed and our oral hygiene is good.
Periodontology Specialist Dt Nergiz Hamamcı
Özel Klinik 99 Oral and Dental Health Polyclinic
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Results of every surgical and invasive procedure may vary from person to person. It is recommended that you get detailed information from your dentist before the procedure.