That little bit of blood in the sink after you finishing brushing your teeth is never something to ignore. While bleeding gums is quite common, leaving it untreated can cause an array of damage to your mouth and the rest of your body. To nurse those sore, inflamed gums back to health, we need to be aware of what causes it in the first place. Although a multitude of reasons could be the culprit, the general and most common is gingivitis—inflamed gums due to plaque build-up. Plaque is a bacterial film that gets into the hard to clean places between your teeth and around your gums (this is why flossing is so important.) This plaque build-up also cause gums to recede, and when the plaque doesn’t get removed, it hardens into to tartar. This can progress gingivitis to periodontitis and jawbone disease. Even worse, once your gums are bleeding due Read the full article...
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