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Description and Symptoms of Periodontal Disease
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Tags: Periodontal disease, Pyorrhea, gingiva, gums, gingivitis, inflammatory diseases, symptoms
Periodontal Disease, is a disease involving inflammation of the gums (gingiva), often persisting unnoticed for years or decades in a patient, that results in loss of bone around teeth. This differs from gingivitis, where there is inflammation of the gingiva but no bone loss; it is the loss of bone around the teeth that differentiates between these two oral inflammatory diseases.
| | Common symptoms of Periodontal Disease includes, |
| | occasional redness or bleeding of gums while brushing teeth, using dental floss or biting into hard food (e.g. apples) |
| | occasional gum swellings that recur |
| | halitosis or bad breath |
| | persistent bad taste in the mouth |
| | recession of gums resulting in apparent lengthening of teeth. This may also be caused by heavy handed brushing using a hard tooth brush. |
| | pockets between the teeth and the gums (Pockets are sites where the jaw bone has been destroyed gradually or by repeated swellings). |
| | loose shaky teeth in later stages |
| | Patients should realize that the gingival inflammation and bone destruction are largely painless. Hence people may wrongly assume that painless bleeding after teeth cleaning is unimportant, although this may be a symptom of periodontitis progressing in that patient. |
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