Healthy Gums: Importance Before Starting an Orthodontic Treatment
In this post from the Clínica Dental Doctores Tarazona we want to explain to you why it’s important to have healthy gums, especially with a view to starting an orthodontic treatment.
Throughout our life it may be that our gums become inflamed and bleed for a few days or even months. So: is it normal to have an infected gum? Now we’ll see that it isn’t normal, even though it’s common, and what we can do.
What are the gums? How can we tell the differences between healthy and diseased gums?
The gums are the soft tissues that wrap around and hold the tooth in place along with the bone. They’re essential for our teeth to be strong and healthy. The colour of healthy gums is pink. Sometimes they may have a stippling that resembles the skin of an orange. However, diseased gums usually have a redder colour and can become bleeding gums when touched; that will be a sign of gum inflammation.
How to tell if what I have is inflamed gums?
Inflamed gums?: Causes.
As we explained before, the clearest sign of inflamed gums is that the gums bleed. This is the most alarming cause and makes patients come to the clinic worried about noticing that their healthy gums are no longer healthy.
What causes the inflammation of the gums? Well, the most common thing is that, by not brushing our teeth properly, the plaque gradually builds up on the teeth and on the gum around the tooth and, with the passing of the days, the gum becomes inflamed, turns red and starts to bleed when we pass the toothbrush over it.
Bleeding gums.
As we’ve indicated above, healthy gums will never be inflamed; when this happens and, in addition, it persists over time, they can come to bleed and patients can develop bleeding gums. Bleeding gums don’t have to appear in the whole mouth; sometimes they appear in the area where we brush our teeth worst and where the inflammation has lasted the longest.
Causes of bleeding gums.
The cause of bleeding gums, as we’ve said before, is the inflammation of the gums that persists over time and they bleed. That’s why the most important thing is to maintain good oral health of our teeth with good tooth brushing and with a paste suitable for our oral health and thereby achieve healthy gums.
Why can orthodontics inflame the gums?
One of the causes that can make the gums become inflamed is undergoing an orthodontic treatment if we don’t have proper hygiene. In what cases does it usually happen? This happens mainly in patients who wear braces, since maintaining proper oral hygiene is difficult because we have to spend more time getting our teeth clean, having so many attachments stuck to the teeth.
In addition, we’ll have to complement our oral hygiene after brushing with the oral irrigator or the interproximal brushes to be able to clean the teeth properly.
