Gingivitis- Know About Its Home Remedies

06.10.2008 by Dr John Anne in Health Care

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Gingivitis is a common mouth disease. It’s the leading cause of tooth loss among adults.
It is an inflammation of the gums caused by plaque and bacteria accumulation between your teeth and gums.

Home Remedy for Gingivitis

Lighten up. “Some people think that the harder you scrub, the more plaque you remove,” says Diane Schoen, dental hygienist, clinical assistant professor and coordinator of the Preventive Dentistry Program at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark. But brushing your teeth isn’t like scrubbing a floor. Plaque is sticky like jelly, not sticky like glue, she says. “It adheres to teeth softly, so you don’t need to scrub hard–it just needs to be mechanically broken up.” Schoen recommends a soft-bristled toothbrush, held at a 45 degree angle to the gum line.

Green Tea - A Home Remedy for Gingivitis

Green tea is most effective at the earliest stage of development, and is probably ineffective if gingivitis progresses to the serious condition of periodontal disease.Meanwhile, you can make some choices about your diet that can reduce the progression of gingivitis home remedies.

In addition to drinking a cup of green tea after each meal, you should eat lots of high-fiber foods, such as fruits and vegetables, and less sugar-laden fare. Dietary fiber acts as a cleaning agent for your teeth.

Another is drinking green tea. Green tea is known to many to aid in weight loss as it can speed up your metabolism and is also rich with ECGCs, antioxidants. What many don’t know is how it can kill bacteria associated with bad breath and plaque but also can help with gingivitis (inflammation of the gums). Drink a cup of green tea a day and you’ll notice the improvement as well as take advantage of its numerous health benefits. bleeding that is associated with gingivitis will subside. It can also desensitize any nerve sensitivity you may have as well. One downside is that teas can discolor your tea with frequent use.

Plaque tends to form on the tooth just below the gum line on the upper and back teeth first. Without cleaning, in as little as 36 hours, this plaque could harden and become tarter. Unfortunately tarter must be professionally removed since a brush is not effective.

If plaque or calculus is not removed, it changes the ph in your dog’s mouth allowing bacteria to form around the gums. This bacteria eats away at the gums with the tooth eventually falling out.

It’s a scary thought, but doctors estimate that there are several hundred kinds of bacterial that consider a person’s mouth their home. They camp out on your teeth, on and under the tongue, and along (and inside) the gums. As the years go by, the constant bacterial onslaught can cause the gums to swell, redden, and bleed. Doctors call this condition gingivitis, better known as gum disease.