Gum Disease

Periodontal disease, bleeding gums and gingivitis: Causes and treatment

What is gum disease?

Gum disease, also known as Periodontal disease, is a common infection of the gum and jaw bone. It affects 3 in 4 people at some stage of their life and is the major cause of tooth loss in adults over 40. Inflammation of the gums is known as Gingivitis, which left untreated can lead to Periodontal disease.

Gum disease is silent – it can often progress painlessly in the early stages. However if untreated and the infection spreads, this can lead to irreversible damage to your jaw bone and loss of teeth.

Gum disease can occur to your whole mouth or just to one or two teeth, although eventually all teeth will be affected to some degree if it is not treated.

Our Dentist’s advice: Your gums should never bleed while brushing or flossing. Good oral hygiene and regular ‘maintenance’ visits with a dentist or hygienist are the best ways to prevent gum disease.

Any of the symptoms below indicate you may have gum disease:

Today’s Dentistry in Brisbane can treat your gum disease.

Periodontal disease is best prevented or treated early. This is why maintaining regular dental check-ups with our dentists and hygienists in our Brisbane practice, is so important.

If your infected gum is more advanced our dentist will need to carry out ‘deep cleaning’, identifying and removing all the bacteria which is causing your gum disease. While this can be painful, Today’s Dentistry believes that all dental procedures can be carried out painlessly and will find a solution to ensure this happens in your treatment.

Treating gum disease early is important because it has also been linked to other health problems.

These include:

Gum disease, also known as Periodontal disease, is a common infection of the gum and jaw bone.

We give you all the options – you decide

It is our policy and approach to give you open and honest advice on all your options, alternatives and the associated cost of treating your gum disease, allowing you to make the most informed decision. Following your treatment we will then continue to work with you to ensure that the Periodontal disease does not return.

We treat patients from all areas of Brisbane and invite you to call our friendly reception staff on (07) 3263 2677 or Contact us. They are never too busy to talk to you about potential gum disease, or any other dental problems that you may have questions about.

Gum Disease

What is gum disease?

Any of the symptoms below indicate you may have gum disease:

Today’s Dentistry in Brisbane can treat your gum disease.

We give you all the options – you decide

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