Ever notice when you’re brushing your teeth, and you feel pain along your gums? Or when you spit out the toothpaste from after you’re brushing your teeth and you see that the spit is a mix of toothpaste and blood, causing that gross brown like mix? It could be a sign of early gum disease.
After you eat a meal and don’t brush or floss, you’re left with clunks of food stuck in between your teeth. Your mouth is a breeding ground for bacteria, and that bacteria is more prone to grow along your gums causing tar tar and plaque to form. That plaque essentially causes inflammation and leads to early gum disease, hence the bleeding.
Bleeding gums are something you want to take care of immediately. If you let it persist longer, you’ll end up with gum recession, tooth decay, and the like.
How does the condition of the average American dental health seem? Not very well off. Try talking to friends and family if you get the chance about their dental health and you’ll find that most of them shrug it off, have had cavities, root canals, or don’t even go to the dentist.
Here are a few inexpensive ways we recommend that help stop gums bleeding:
Philips Sonicare Toothbrush
A recommendation by dentists (the ones that know what they’re doing). The Sonicare brush does what the average toothbrush cannot. It gets all those little chunks out of your teeth when you brush. You will notice it upon your first time compared to a regular tooth brush. When you spit, you’ll see so many more debris from your teeth that a normal brush wouldn’t have been able to pick up.
Listerine Mouthwash
Rinsing out with a mouthwash that kills bacteria that causes gum disease and plaque is essential. Like the sonicare brush, rinsing out with mouthwash makes a huge difference on gum health and overall breath. Start your mornings with a thorough brush, and topping it off with a fresh rinse off with a Listerine mouthwash.
Flossing!
There are a bunch of ways to go about this – you can floss with your standard dental floss (we recommend Crest oral-B, don’t bother with the cheap generic brands, those are not worth it and you’ll end up doing more damage than harm to your gums) or you could go with a water flosser.
A water flosser sounds amazing and fun but in reality, it can be quite tedious to do. That being said, its another way to get all those built up chunks out of your teeth. However, it’s an easy and fun way to flossing besides the normal “grabbing the ends and moving the floss back and forth”
We recommend the Waterpik Water Flosser for specifics, can be bought online at amazon or target.
P.S. We also recommend OraWellness Healthy Teeth & Gums Starter Kit to fight against tooth decay! (Made from 100% organic ingredients)