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You must consult your health care provider if your gums continue to bleed even after treatment, or if the bleeding is severe or chronic. Other unexplained symptoms are associated with the bleeding so your dentist should examine your teeth and gums, and ask questions such as [3]:
- Whether the gums are bleeding profusely,
- Did the bleeding begin recently,
- Do the gums bleed frequently or only occasionally,
- And have you had gum problems before?
The doctor could also ask the following questions to get an appropriate diagnosis.
- How often you brush and floss
- Do you use a soft or hard bristled toothbrush?
- How vigorously do you brush your teeth?
- When was the last time you had your teeth cleaned at the dentist?
- Have you changed your diet?
- Do you eat adequate amounts of fruits and vegetables?
- Do you take supplemental vitamins?
- Do you have a high carbohydrate diet?
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The doctor should also ask what medications you take, do you take anticonvulsants, anticoagulants or Aspirin, or maybe you are pregnant. In some cases mouthwash or toothpaste could provoke the gums to bleed, so your doctor should know if you changed some of these recently. Your doctor must be familiar with other possible symptoms you might have, for example, a sore throat.
Bleeding Gums Complications
It is always best to brush away the problem in the initial period itself. Otherwise, complications like constant bleeding, swelling and pain in gums, periodontal disease, jaw bone disease, and finally tooth loss can occur.
General Treatment Of Bleeding gums
To keep healthy and smiling teeth, it is essential to keep the gums healthy. The first and best treatment is maintaining oral and dental hygiene: this includes proper brushing techniques and regular visits to the dentist. Your doctor may also request you to change certain behaviors, such as smoking or alcohol consumption, as a way to improve treatment outcome.
Due to a wide range of potential problems occurring in the gums and teeth, most patients are prescribed antibiotics and varieties of pasts to control infection [3].
The homeopathic approach, according to symptoms, similarity, and cause of the complaint, is prescribed to cure the case. Medicines which are prescribed homeopathically could control infection immediately and arrest bleeding [7]. For a complete cure, treatment should be started at the early stage; otherwise, the gums may recede or shrink, paving the way for infection to enter the base of the teeth to loosen them. Once gums get retracted and receded, gaining normalcy is tough, but even though we make gums healthy through treatment, they will not adhere to the teeth as tightly as before. In that case, the cementum of the teeth will be exposed and this will cause sensitive teeth.
Usually, pain is always preferable to numbness, where some people opt for benumbing the gum with gum gel for pain relief and arresting the bleeding. This approach will work only temporarily and in this case, the disease often advances further, causing more and more pain and more and more complications, since this type of temporary pain alleviation allows the disease to continue developing with a temporary hurdle.
Therefore, treatment of bleeding gums locally with this type of gum gel will not help in the long run. Aloe vera is often helpful [8], but a patient and a doctor should aim at treating the cause and symptoms internally with medicines for a complete cure.
- Prescription antimicrobial mouth rinse
- Antiseptic chip
- Antibiotic gel
- Antibiotic microspheres
- Enzyme suppressant
- Oral antibiotics
However, depending on how far the disease has progressed, your dentist may still suggest surgical treatment [3]:
- Flap surgery
- Bone and tissue grafts