What disease is periodontitis?
Periodontitis is a chronic inflammation that invades gums and periodontal tissues, and it is a destructive disease. The daily care of patients with periodontitis is very important, and patients with periodontitis should pay more attention to the health care of teeth. So, what does the daily care and health care of periodontitis patients include? Let the authoritative stomatologist in our hospital introduce it to you.
We must pay attention to the prevention and treatment of periodontitis. Periodontitis is a common disease after middle age. Many people think that periodontitis is caused by rising virtual fire and periodontitis. Just take some medicine, there is no timely treatment. As we all know, "periodontitis" often occurs repeatedly, which will seriously damage our periodontal health and cause our teeth to loosen and fall off. To deal with periodontitis, taking medicine alone can't solve the problem. Local periodontal treatment, such as periodontal irrigation or skin flap surgery, is needed.
2, daily care should pay attention to
Periodontitis patients should also pay attention to brushing their teeth with warm water in their daily life. After middle age, due to tooth surface wear and periodontal atrophy, dentin is exposed, teeth are prone to sensitive areas, and they feel weak in cold, hot, sour and sweet. This repeated stimulation will lead to pulpitis and damage our dental health. There is a folk saying that "warm teeth, cold water and hot feet". Washing teeth with warm water can reduce the occurrence of pulpitis. So patients with periodontitis must pay attention to brushing their teeth with warm water.
3. Symptoms of periodontitis
1, persistent halitosis
Bad breath is common in oral diseases, and periodontitis is an important cause of bad breath. Periodontitis leads to gingival bleeding and tissue inflammation, which is easy to cause bacteria to produce a large number of metabolites and cause bad breath.
2, bleeding gums
Periodontitis is characterized by chronic destruction of tissues around teeth (including gums, periodontal ligament and alveolar bone), and its symptoms are not obvious, so it is often ignored by ordinary people. Gum bleeding is one of the early symptoms of periodontitis, and it is a signal sent by the body to tell you that your gums are inflamed.
3. Formation of periodontal pocket
Under normal circumstances, the gingival sulcus attached to the teeth is only zero to two millimeters deep, and the periodontal pocket is more than two millimeters. The formation of periodontal pocket shows that inflammation has developed from gingiva to periodontal supporting tissue, which makes the deeper periodontal tissue infected and chronically destroyed, and purulent secretions can overflow from periodontal pocket.
Step 4 loosen your teeth
In the early stage of periodontitis, teeth will not loosen. When chronic destructive inflammation develops to a certain extent and the supporting force of periodontal tissue is greatly weakened, teeth can be loosened.
5. dental advice
Gingival recession is also one of the symptoms of periodontitis, which is usually difficult for patients to detect. Periodontitis caused by local factors, due to the oppression of a large number of dental calculus for a long time, stimulates the gums, leading to horizontal retraction of the gingival margin.