The fourth national oral health survey showed that the detection rate of dental calculus was over 90%, the detection rate of gingival bleeding was over 82%, and less than 10% of periodontal healthy people were over 35 years old. However, more than 49.6% of adults think there is nothing wrong with their mouths.
Dental calculus is an important factor leading to periodontitis, and gingival bleeding indicates periodontitis. The reason why people ignore periodontitis is related to the characteristics of the disease itself. The occurrence and development of periodontal disease is silent and unobtrusive. Its earliest symptom, bleeding from brushing teeth, is often misled by other cognition that brushing teeth is too hard and vitamin C is lacking.
If you want to find periodontitis as early as possible in your daily life, you must understand the top ten symptoms related to it:
1. Gingival bleeding: Bleeding when brushing teeth, sucking or biting hard objects, the amount of bleeding is usually very small, and it stops after gargling, which is often ignored. Some people also complain that saliva is dark brown in the morning, which is also one of the manifestations of gingival bleeding.
2. Teeth are sensitive to cold and heat: Root exposure caused by periodontal tissue destruction may be sensitive to cold and heat. When a large amount of dental plaque accumulates on the root surface, the symptoms of dentin hypersensitivity may be aggravated.
3. Red and swollen gums: Under the action of inflammation, the blood vessels of the gums expand, making the gums change from healthy pink to bright red or dark red.
4. itchy gums: this symptom is rare, but it may indicate that there is something wrong with your gums.
5. food impaction: causing food