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How to Deal with Gingivitis

Abstract: Gingivitis can easily lead to bleeding gums, swelling, pain and other symptoms. Almost everyone will suffer chronic gingivitis during the whole life. Thence, let’s look at some treatments of coping with gingivitis.

The treatments of gingivitis:

Ismile shanghai dental suggests some basic ways to treat gingivitis: keep mouth clean, brush teeth thoroughly at least twice a day, wash mouth after meal, properly use the dental floss and toothpick regularly and clean up the interdental food. If those don’t work, a doctor, some medicine and other treatments are recommended.

Treatment A: antibiotics. As to patients who suffer systemic disease, the stress should be put on it. At times of acute inflammation, Spiramycin, metronidazole, Pioneer and penicillin can be used.

Treatment B: topical treatment. It is applicable after cleaning tartar, plaque and food debris. After rinsed with 3% hydrogen peroxide solution or saline, the teeth can be coated by l% iodine glycerin. Also 1:5000 potassium permanganate solution or compound borax can be used to wash teeth. Gargle can also be applied selectively. Patients after surgery still are plagued with significant gingival hyperplasia can choose gingivectomy.

Treatment C: Clean the plaque, calculus attached to the tooth surface so as to reduce irritation and remedy food impaction. Appropriately take in vitamin c, vitamin A and D in order to improve the body resistance and repair capacity as well as help repair periodontal tissue. Various chronic diseases can get actively treated.

Treatment D: 1. decoction. Juice fresh meat, fresh pears, raw water chestnuts, raw sugar cane and fresh rehmannia root, and drink with a small cup. 2. From the point of Chinese patent medicine, Qingwei Huanglian Wan, Niuhuang Shangqing Wan, Liuwei Dihuang Wan, Guishao Dihuang Wan are suitable to take in.

Treatment E: body acupoint points: often Hegu, Jiache, Xiaguan, Dicang, Quchi, Neiting and Taichong; auricular poinst: often the parts where the lung, spleen, stomach, liver, oral cavity, adrenal glands are linked to.

Treatment F: the food therapy: 1. Prepare 250g Malan of red stems, 200g fragrant tofu. Get them chopped and stirred. Then add spices into them. Keep eating for several times. 2. Prepare 120g herring, 200g leeks. Get herring sliced and leeks cut into sections, then get them stirred and add spices into them. Still keep eating for a few times. 3. Prepare 30g lentils, 15g Chinese yam, 20g astragals, 50g jujube, 100g rice. Cook them into porridge and take it.

In treating gingivitis, the acupuncture and moxibustion can be used as an adjuvant therapy. Shanghai dental advices that with the help of acupuncture, gingivitis patients can also adopt the Chinese medicine decoction. Then they can get treated comprehensively with the mouthwash from Chinese patent medicine or western medicine. In the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, gastrointestinal disorder and gingivitis are each other’s essential prerequisites, therefore, to address both the symptoms and root causes should start to treat both the gastrointestinal disorder and gingivitis. Gingivitis is a very common disease, so some knowledge is helpful to prevent it. Pay more attention to teeth in daily life so as to have good health.

Plublish Date: 2014-05-16

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