As the standard of living increases, so does the awareness of health. However, most people focus on organ problems and ignore oral diseases – periodontal disease.
What is periodontal disease?
Periodontal disease is a chronic progressive disease that occurs around the tooth tissue. It can be caused by inflammation and edema of the gums, formation of periodontal pockets, loosening of the teeth, loss of chewing function, and eventually tooth loss. In the advanced clinical stage, symptoms such as bleeding gums, pus overflow, and loose teeth may occur.
The age of onset of periodontal disease is more common after the age of 35. If the gums are not treated in time. Inflammation can spread from the gums to the periodontium, alveolar bone and dental bone and develop into periodontal disease. Since there are no obvious symptoms in the early years, it is easy to be ignored, and when there are symptoms, it is already more serious and even cannot retain teeth.
Symptoms of periodontal disease
1. Periodontal pocket formation
Due to the expansion of inflammation, the periodontal membrane is destroyed, the alveolar bone is gradually resorbed, and the gums are separated from the roots of the teeth.
2. Periodontal pus overflow
There are ulcers and inflammatory granulation tissue formation in the wall of periodontal pockets, and there is purulent secretion stored in the pockets, so please press the gums and see the overflow of pus, and there is often oral odor.
3.Loose teeth
Due to the destruction of periodontal tissues, especially when the resorption of alveolar bone is aggravated, the power to support teeth is insufficient and teeth loosening and displacement occur.
Periodontal disease is a multifactorial disease
Periodontal disease is a chronic inflammatory lesion of periodontal tissue caused by multiple factors, local, systemic, behavioral and psychosocial factors are all risk factors for periodontal disease.
Local factors include plaque, tartar, occlusal trauma, food impaction, and some anatomical factors.
There are significant individual differences in the development of dental periodontal disease, and the cause of one of the important factors affecting individual susceptibility to periodontal disease is not a monogenic factor, and its pathogenesis may be due to a combination of many other factors (e.g., plaque, smoking, stress) and other effects.
The prevalence and severity of periodontal disease in the elderly is higher than in younger people, and much of the poor periodontal condition in the elderly is the result of the cumulative effect of periodontal disease over the years, and if timely treatment and long-term maintenance are obtained, the elderly can also have very healthy periodontal tissue.
Smoking is a more serious degree of periodontal disease occurrence, and the degree of impact of smoking on periodontal health is directly proportional to the amount of smoking, especially in this young people. At the same time, smoking has a negative impact on the effectiveness of periodontal disease treatment, making it prone to recurrence.
In fact, our teeth are equivalent to a large tree, periodontal tissue is equivalent to the soil around the roots of the tree, once there is periodontal disease, it is equivalent to the occurrence of soil erosion, the soil around the roots of the tree are gone, the tree will fall.
Periodontal disease self-test.
1.Blood on toothbrush when brushing teeth, blood on food when biting food.
2. When looking in the mirror, you find red and swollen gums that bleed when you touch them.
3, teeth have different degrees of looseness, exposed roots or red and swollen gums with pus.