Medical Matters: Bleeding Gums are NOT Normal

Yeah.

I mean, I remember not long ago, you and I had the conversation where you said to me, you know, one of the big problems is that we love to brush our teeth.

Almost as if we're assaulting our teeth and our gums.

You even said, no. Yeah,

yeah, yeah.

But, but,

but, but.

But why is it that we seem to be so tolerant of that? Isn't it painful? I mean, I don't have the condition, but I imagine that it's very, very painful.

I think it's because in the beginning, it's not painful.

So normally people, when there's no pain related to something, they just think it's okay or they want to normalize it.

Not knowing that there's more danger to that than just pushing it to the side.

Now, this is the story.

Why do gums bleed? Yeah.

It's mainly because of gums bleed because there's inflammation.

And in most cases, it starts being caused by plaque.

So when there's an accumulation of plaque, then all those bacteria and everything else, they sit nicely there on your gums, and then they start bleeding.

Like when they're inflamed, whether you touch them or you pressure on them, then they'll be bleeding.

Now, One is to effectively be able to remove that plaque.

And sometimes, like you've just mentioned, people think plaque is very hard and then they'll be brushing their teeth very hard, also damaging the gums in the same process.

But now, because there's no pain involved, people start thinking, nah, it's just, you know, maybe I was brushing hard or...

Yeah.

In fact, we sometimes congratulate ourselves because we went through this process of cleaning ourselves so thoroughly until we bled.

Yeah.

Sometimes we find that even the brush has actually been changed, you know, from being like...

Yes.