Are there any natural remedies for gum disease?
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Depends on if you are talking about gingivitis or periodontitis.  Gingivitis is treatable with good home care - brushing twice daily, flossing daily, and maybe rinsing with Listerine or Crest Pro-Health Rinse.  Gingivitis is characterized by red, swollen, bleeding gums.  If you are talking about periodontitis, you may be able to stop the progression of the disease with good home care, but probably not.  Periodontitis requires cleanings by a dental hygienist every three months combined with good home care, and possible medications given by a periodontist.  Depending on the severity of the disease, surgery may be recommended.  I've listed a web site below that may help.
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Yes, the best thing for it is to rinse your mouth several times a day with warm salt water.  It has a healing effect on the gums and surrounding tissues.  Use 1 teaspoon of salt to 8 ounces of water.
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Clove oil as a natural remedy, or Ambusol if you do not care whether or not it is a natural cure. You just have to put a drop where the pain is.\nIf you have lost a filling, there is a temporary filling you can buy over the counter as well.
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If your gums have receded, it is sometimes possible to graft tissue to cover a portion of the exposed root surface and to reinforce the fragile, receding gum tissue to protect from further recession. Also common to receded gums is sensitivity that results from the exposed root surface. Your dentist can apply medications in the office, and /or recommend products for you to use at home that will help reduce sensitivity of these root surfaces and help protect the now vulnerable root surface from decay.\n\nGums that recede to expose the root surfaces of teeth is a common condition in adults over the age of 40. Many consider it to be just a sign of aging, and in some cases it is essentially that – often the result of wear and tear or years of aggressive tooth brushing. However, sometimes receding gums can be a sign of something more.\n\nIn many cases, receding gums are caused by periodontal disease (gum disease). Three out of four adults have some form of it, and in most cases, it doesn't cause any pain and goes unnoticed. \n\nCommon in adults, gum disease starts when bacteria containing plaque builds up on the teeth and gums. When the plaque is not removed daily, it produces toxins that irritate and inflame the gums. Eventually the inflammatory process destroys the gum tissues, causing them to separate from the tooth and form spaces called pockets. The pockets hold more bacteria, which only compounds the problem.\n\nIn the early stages, gum disease (gingivitis), marked by red or swollen gums that bleed easily, is reversible and can be detected and treated by your dentist or dental hygienist during regular check-ups. As the disease progresses (periodontitis), it can destroy the bone and soft tissues that support the teeth. In advanced stages of periodontitis, teeth can become loose, fall out or have to be removed by a dentist. In fact, periodontitis is the culprit in 70 percent of tooth loss in adults over 40.\n\nThe good news is these gum conditions can be prevented by good daily oral hygiene habits. Receding gums are best prevented by brushing with a soft toothbrush, using mild-to-moderate pressure and small circular or very short back and forth motions. Avoid hard toothbrush bristles and long horizontal brush strokes with excessive pressure on your toothbrush.\n\nRemember, with daily brushing and flossing and regular visits to the dentist, adults can look forward to keeping their natural teeth throughout their life.\n\n\nGL\nThe only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.  ~John E. Southard
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1- avoid spicy, oily and fast food completely\n2-use only glycerine based soap for mouth wash\n3- apply kumkumadi taila (an ayurvedic oil) before bed\n4- apply paste of turmeric powder, mulethi powder, manjistha powder mixed in fresh aloe gel(ghritkumari gel)\nyou get relief in 15 days\ngood luck\ndr.arun
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Probably you are like me in that genetically you have thin gum tissue. \n\nThe best solution is to use only a sulcus toothbrush to clean the gumline and a regular soft toothbrush on the teeth only.\n\nYour cut gum tissue should heal gradually within a week. If you need help to control bleeding or soreness, I recommend having your dentist or peridontist prescribe Peridex (chlorhexidine gluconate). If the tissue, does not heal as expected, see a periodontist. Peridontists are much more competent than dentists concerning the gums.
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Try brushing with frozen strawberries (no i am not kidding).  Also use baking soda on your toothbrush, on your regular toothpaste at least once a day and give up coffee, teas and things that stain your teeth or brush immediately after or chew Trident whitening gum after.
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Brush your teeth with a flouride toothpaste twice daily. Once in the morning, and once before bed. Do not drink anything but water after the nighttime brushing.\n\nIn between chew a piece of Trident or other SUGARLESS gum. It helps cause enzymes in saliva to wash away sugars and help protect the teeth. Also, have some water after a sugary soda. The water will help rinse some residual sugar off your teeth.\n\nI find a stick of Trident works best. Twice daily brusing. technically,2 minutes total. 30 seconds for each quadrant.\n\nI really like the new Oral B electric toothbrush. It has those floss action paddles on the brush and it really has eliminated the need to floss for me. I used to floss each time I brushed and with this toothbrush, flossing is pointless. I still do it daily to be safe, but the new brush does a great gum workpout.\n\nThe real goal is to eliminate sugars coated or stuck on teeth. Water helps, and sugarless gum. Merely drinking a soda and then having some water will not harm your teeth. What does the damage is going hours with sugar on them, or over night.
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You also have to follow up at home. The dentist does not give you a miracle cure. Your gum disease has to be controlled by you at home with every day brushing and flossing
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always chew a gum or eat candies..\ni think it will really help you!
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How about a different angle, to actually REVERSE gum disease. I suppose few will believe this, but does it matter ?. Not to me. Make up your own mind. I agree it may not be acceptable to most, but I tell you now, this is EXACTLY TRUE.\n\nI have suffered from bleeding gums since the early 1980s. In recent years no matter flossing hygienist work, etc, not much improvement. The stated the infetion foci were deep under the gum, managed at best, but no way out. Resigned to blood every time I brushed or spit.\n\nThen last summer my wife told me how she met an elderly Japanese man on a flight from the Far East, who had the most attractive teeth she had seen in an old person. Struck up a halting conversation, and soon, the ice broken she asked him, were his teeth real teeth. He laughed out loud, and pulled on them with both hands as a gag. He told her he was 92 !. Lean and quite athletic, looked more like 70 maybe. Anyway, she took his advice to heart. On alternate days lunch we eat one julienned RAW ONION sprinkled with vinegar and mixed in rice or soup (the heat is too much otherwise), the even days we crush 4 / 5 garlic cloves in a tablespoon of olive oil and add to veggies or whatever else's lunch. We also -wife and me-had to give up all sweets and sugars. NOT THAT EASY.\n\nWell, gum disease ALL GONE in a metter of eight months. We have lost a lot of blubber (me, about 10 Kgs). The dentist popped his eyes: "what have you been doing ?". I sent this info to a blog. Read the April 27 2006 entry "Sugar, Sugar". I am pleased beyond words with this.
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Chewing gum.  Studies have shown that cinnamon flavored gum helps fight bad breath the most because of something in the cinnamon.
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To keep teeth bright and prevent yellowing, you need to remove the staining bacteria. This is exactly what happens when you chew certain foods that produce a high salivary flow. So, in addition to apples, take a bite out of guavas, pears, celery, carrots, sugar cane, cauliflower, and cucumbers. Another benefit: The fibre in some of these foods physically works to clean teeth and remove bacteria.
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I know of none. But you could contact a dental university and see if they can help you.
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There are some natural remedies you can take to help
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You are correct. \n\nThere is no cure to periodontal disease, but gum disease can be controlled.  That is to say it can be stopped from getting worse.  There are some very interesting studies in the pipe line.  But as of yet it still a hard to get bone to grow around exposed roots reliably.  Its easier to graft bone and place man made roots in the new bone.  that is because the made roots (implants) are carefully controlled and prepared in a sterile environment.    What makes your teeth impossible to cure is because once you loose the bone the roots is exposed, contaminated by the oral environment.    So the bone cells have no way to re-attach to the tooth.
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Ginkgo is probably the best natural remedy. But sleep and proper nutrition will do even more.