Bleeding Gums: Understanding the Causes and

Unusual Oral Symptoms You Shouldn’t Ignore

(Part 5)

This is the 6th part of our discussion of this topic:: Understanding the Causes and Unusual Oral Symptoms You Shouldn’t Ignore

The Truths to Keep in Mind about Bleeding Gums

If your gums randomly bleed or bleed whenever you brush or floss, talk to your dentist ASAP. To save your gums and teeth, you should keep in mind the following truths about bleeding gums.

Bleeding Gums are Commonplace: It’s not unusual to suffer from bleeding gums. If they occur far too often to you as of late, you might be one of millions of adults suffering from some form of gum disease.

Regardless, 1 in 4 adults worldwide has some form of gum disease, whether it’s mild to moderate gingivitis or severe periodontitis. 

Unfortunately, many people are unaware they could get bleeding gums by letting plaque remain uncleaned.

Bleeding Gums Have Many Causes: 

Gum disease can be mild gingivitis that you can reverse with proper treatment and regular dental hygiene. Or it can also be severe periodontal disease, known medically as periodontitis.

In fact, periodontitis isn’t just one condition and symptom that requires a mere one-size-fits-all treatment.

Gum disease is a series of conditions with their own respective stages of severity and symptoms. Bleeding gums is actually one of the milder symptoms along with gum swelling.

However, you shouldn’t ignore gum disease either because it’s a preventable disease that can do permanent damage to your teeth and gums if left unchecked.

Yes, It’s Perfectly Preventable: One of the easiest (but also somehow the most tedious) ways of mitigating bleeding gums and gingivitis/periodontitis risk is by regularly brushing your teeth twice a day (after lunch and before bedtime).

The progression of gum disease can be staved off from the start, particularly in the early stages where you’re only dealing with inflamed, easily irritated gums.

Naturally, you’ll have to pay more expensive in-office treatments like scaling and root planing to address more advanced symptoms like pocket formation and receding gums. Fortunately, gum disease doesn’t worsen overnight.

Every new stage of gum disease gives you a window of opportunity to improve your gum health and preserve your teeth.

However, if it gets worse enough, you might need to outright put on expensive false teeth, bridges, or even All-on-6 dental implants with crowns!

Please Don’t Ignore the Symptoms: The average person literally cannot afford to ignore the symptoms of gingivitis and periodontitis. The more they leave their bleeding gums unchecked, the more expensive their future treatment will get.

It all starts with plaque removal. The more you brush your teeth, the less likely plaque can worsen to tartar and gum infection.

In turn, the sooner you resolve your gum troubles, the easier and cheaper the treatment will become.

Prevention, as always, is superior to cures and treatments, so maintain a regular oral health regimen for your own good.

Be aware of how big of a red flag bleeding gums are. Don’t ignore its worsening state, because this will only cause your gum disease (or other underlying conditions) to worsen and result in grave consequences.

Bleeding gums can initially be painless until it becomes worse enough to not be so painless anymore, especially when you floss. Don’t allow your gum bleeding to get that bad for your own good!