Dr. Sanda MoldovanYour mouth is the gateway to your health

Signs Of Gum Disease

Name: Signs Of Gum Disease
Uploaded: 2014-03-25T23:16:26+00:00
Duration: 1 min 32 s
Channel: Dr. Sanda Moldovan
Description: Dr. Sanda Moldovan explains common signs and risk factors for gum disease and points viewers to an external risk-assessment resource. Key signs…

25 Mar 2014 · 2 min

Watch on YouTube

1:32

Dr. Sanda Moldovan explains common signs and risk factors for gum disease and points viewers to an external risk-assessment resource. Key signs mentioned: bleeding when brushing or flossing, visible gum recession with exposed tooth root. Risk factors noted: family history of gum disease, smoking, and not flossing. She recommends the Academy of Periodontology risk-assessment at perio.org and provides contact options (tweet @Mersanda; website drsanda.com).

Questions this video answers

Bleeding when brushing or flossing; gum recession with exposed root.

perio.org (Academy of Periodontology).

Tweet @Mersanda or visit her website drsanda.com.

Chapters

Foreign Hi everyone, I'm Dr. Sandha and I want to help you today with a question. How do I know I have gum disease? A lot of you have sent me this email. It's like, well, what are some signs of gum disease? So, for example, a big concern is if your gums are bleeding when you're flossing and when you're brushing. If you're seeing bleeding, that's not a good sign. Another thing is if you look in the mirror and you see gum receding around your teeth and you're actually seeing the root there, that's also a concern that you may have gum disease. A great risk assessment that I recommend to most of my patients or people that are emailing me from all over the world is perio.org they have a great risk assessment guide. So if you go to their website, which is the Academy of periodontology website, perio.org you could take that test and see if you are predisposed to gum disease. They will ask you questions like, do I have a family member who has had gum disease? Then you're most likely predisposed to gum disease. Smoking also increases the risk to gum disease. So go ahead and go to their website and check out the risk assessment guide. If you're flossing and you find blood on your floss, or worse, you're not flossing at all, that also predisposes you to gum disease. Do you have any questions about gum disease or an area of concern you want to ask me about? Go ahead and tweet Mersanda or go to my website@drsanda.com.