Gums: Gum Disease, Gingivitis and Periodontitis

Gum: Gum Disease, Gingivitis and Periodontitis

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In this video, I will tell you a little about the diseases that can affect the gum and tooth support regions.

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First of all, I would like to show you a typical example of diseases that affect the gum (also known as gingivitis) and also those that affect, besides the gum, the tooth support regions, also known as periodontitis.
But before getting into this topic for a moment, I would like to make an important remark: "I for myself, would like to speak only of aesthetics and well-being ... would not talk about diseases ... on the other hand, I see in my day- countless people who had beautiful smiles who gradually lost it due to the simple ignorance of these diseases that affect teeth and gums ... this often deprives them of better aesthetics, self-esteem, well-being and relationships positive social ... see what I said to you now: it is not the diseases themselves that cause all these disorders to the person, but the simple ignorance of these diseases by the person ...

So here you have a little overview of these gum diseases:
Popularly, these diseases are said to be "gum disease". Technically, we dentists say that these diseases are called periodontal diseases, ie perio = around and odonto = tooth. Rather, those diseases that attack the regions around the tooth, which are responsible for supporting, protecting and fixing the tooth in the person's mouth.

Like tooth decay, gum disease is caused by bacteria present in plaque.
These bacteria in plaque can attack the gum and tooth support structures, leading to the popularly known "gum disease". When these bacteria attack only the gum, one gets a disease called "gingivitis"; When aggression is most severe and bacteria also attack the tooth's supporting structures, a disease known as "periodontitis" forms.

Let's talk about gingivitis and periodontitis in a moment. First, I would like to tell you a little about the gum and tooth support structures.
See this drawing. We can see that there is the tooth, formed by its crown and root. The crown serves to chew food and aids in speech.

The root serves to fix the tooth so that it does not fall from the person's mouth. For this, the root has to be surrounded by bone and ligament. The gum, which covers the root, bone and ligament, serves mainly to protect these structures from food intake during chewing.

The gum and tooth support structures together form the "periodontium". The gum, as I said, protects. Root, bone and ligament hold, fix tooth in position.

The key to understanding how these structures can be attacked by bacteria in plaque is to know that there is a gap between the tooth and the gum that surrounds the entire crown of the tooth. This slit is called gum groove or gingival sulcus.

It is exactly on the edge of the gum and in this gum groove that bacteria become lodged, "live" and, once there, cause gum disease.
There is also the possibility of tartar formation.

In a few days, if this plaque, already mature and established in the region, is not removed by hygiene techniques, the gum begins to show the first signs of disease. It is gingivitis.
Periodontitis is a more severe and advanced case of the disease. In it, bacteria not only attack the gum alone, as it does in gingivitis, but they advance deep and begin to affect the root, ligament, and supporting bone of the tooth.

The most striking aspect of the presence of periodontitis is the progressive loss of bone that supports the tooth.

Often the dentist and also you can recognize this supportive bone loss just by watching closely. In this look, one can recognize an apparent retraction of the inflamed gum and consequent exposure of the root.
At other times, bone loss cannot be observed only visually, but a more refined dentist examination is necessary to detect it. This is because, there are cases where the bone is quietly lost under the gum. In other words, there is no retraction of the gum, so it covers the loss of supportive bone from the tooth that is occurring below it.

In this case, bone loss examination is achieved by this instrument. It's called a periodontal probe. In a normal gum this probe penetrates up to 2mm. When bone is lost due to periodontitis, the probe may penetrate more than 10mm.

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Видео Gums: Gum Disease, Gingivitis and Periodontitis канала Wagner Munhoz