Medical Matters: Bleeding Gums are NOT Normal

And actually, the reason maybe why you've been bringing oral health more throughout the year is also to let our people, like to educate our people.

Because the truth of the matter is, You know, there's still that thing of wanting to treat oral health as a stand-alone thing.

Yes.

And which is not supposed to be.

Yes.

I mean, everything starts in the mouth, if you think about it.

So now with oral health, some of the conditions, we easily pick them up from the mouth.

In most cases, before the patient even knows that there's something wrong with them.

I'll give you an example.

People who are diabetic.

we can pick that up by scaring them in the mouth.

Remember, I'm not saying we are diagnosing them to say this, but there are some...

Tattletale signs, red flags.

That

you can see and say, something is not going well.

And with people who are diabetic as well, when they now have, say, gingivitis or any oral health condition, it starts being a bigger problem for them because, remember, people who are diabetic, they take time to heal.

So now because somehow their immune system as well gets a little bit compromised in a way.

So now when they've got those gingivitis and then it takes time to heal and then it progresses further and then it starts being a problem and then you find that the bacteria that's in the mouth they move into your system and when they move in the system they go to all sorts of areas your heart included that's why you need to keep your oral cavity your heart included yes because the the bacteria flows in your bloodstream right

right right right

so when it goes there it it might i'm not saying it will but in some cases it might it might go and have a situation where now it clocks your arteries

i want to read you a message uh from abo who says hi aubry my gums bleeding comes and goes i've been using a gum product and some mouthwash been good but recently came back and i have noticed dark stain coming back again It's always finding the balance for me, says Arbo.

Why would that be happening to Arbo, just based on what they're saying? I know that you probably need to have a proper screening and a proper process of diagnosis, but why would there be a recurring of this?

I think I would say for Abu, one, well, the obvious case would be go and have yourself checked up because you cannot just diagnose with it.

But if something comes and goes, comes and goes, clearly it says something's wrong.

There could be an underlying factor that he might not be aware of that needs to be properly checked and get a proper diagnosis.