Swollen gums

Introduction The gums are swollen and swollen, and generally accompanied by pain. The patient itself often has chronic inflammation. When the body's resistance is reduced, the weather is dry, eating spicy food, or suffering from diabetes, the original chronic inflammation is acute, and the symptoms of gum swelling and pain occur.

Cause

The tooth is the bone, the kidney is the main, the foot Yangming meridian in the upper gum, the hand Yangming meridian in the lower gums, the inflammatory gums atrophy, mainly manifested as red gum swelling and pain, common bleeding when brushing teeth. Older gingival atrophy often makes the exposed teeth extremely sensitive to cold and hot temperature changes and acidic foods, hindering eating and lowering the quality of life, especially attention to prevention and treatment.

an examination

Related inspection

Oral endoscopic oral X-ray examination

First, stomach fire Sheng: Zheng Jian gum swelling and pain, suffering from swelling of the cheeks on the side, and even can not chew, local burning, mouth bitter bad breath, constipation, red tongue yellow.

Second, kidney yin deficiency, virtual fire on the inflammation: symptoms of the gums are slightly swollen, reddish, dull pain, tooth shake is not solid, or both have blood, no special.

Third, X-ray examination, it can be seen that the impacted teeth are not fully erupted; in the X-ray films of chronic pericoronitis, the presence of periodontal bone shadow (pathological bone pocket) can sometimes be found.

Differential diagnosis

Gingival hypertrophy: During pregnancy, due to changes in hormone levels during pregnancy, it can cause hypertrophy of the gums, which is prone to gingivitis and bleeding of the gums, especially after brushing. This is a common symptom in the third trimester.

Itching of the gums: Exfoliative gingivitis is a syndrome that is often accompanied by oral moss or pemphigus. Self-diagnosis points The typical symptoms of pulpitis are bleeding gums and gingivitis.

Gum bleeding: Gum bleeding is one of the common symptoms in dentistry. In general, gum bleeding is common in the early stages of periodontitis - gingivitis. Gum bleeding does not only occur in dental diseases, it also occurs in other diseases of the body, which may indicate other system diseases, such as leukemia, exposure to radioactive radiation, autoimmune diseases, etc. In recent years, periodontal disease and The relationship between diabetes is increasingly recognized by the medical community.

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