Keep your teeth clean. Or else you will know what it feels like to have gum disease. You thought your mother was just trying to make you miserable, but the truth is, she was trying to KEEP you from misery! But gum disease shouldn't leave you feeling mortified. A lot of people get it. I guess moms don't get listened to.

Anyway, you need to be on the lookout for gum disease and take care of it as soon as it appears. You get this disease when mouth bacteria destroys and disturbs the bone and tissues that hold your teeth in place. Gum disease causes gums that are a cherry red color. But under the gums that you can see, the bacteria is damaging your jawbone. What's worse, the bacteria can spread beyond your mouth.

Gingivitis is the first stage of gum disease and comes about because of mediocre oral hygiene in addition to your age, genetic predisposition, stress level, and other factors. It can be reversed with proper treatment by a professional dentist together with a new oral hygiene routine you'll get in place at home. If left untreated, gingivitis can advance into periodontitis.

That means you absolutely need to take care of the gingivitis. The dentist at Fairfax City that will take care of your gum disease uses scaling or root planing, also known as periodontal therapy, which is a distinctive cleaning procedure. In the process of the scaling, the dental professional will make sure your teeth are tidied up and then scrape away all the bacteria and plaque from the gaps and ensure that your tooth roots don't have anymore bacteria hanging around.

After the completion of the periodontal therapy, that will be all you need to have the dentist do. But that doesn't mean you won't have to do anything to keep it that way.

It has to be your decision to change. You need to floss regularly, and once you've finished with the floss, it's time to brush your teeth and use some hydrogen peroxide and saltwater in between your teeth using a waterpik that has a dental hypodermic attached. And then you can also use the pik to scrape your teeth. This new system of oral hygiene isn't only basic, it is the best thing to do to ward off future gum disease.