Many patients visit us, complaining of a gum weakening, bleeding from the gums and they often complain like, I feel like my gums are weak, they are going down and when you do examination you often see the detachment of the gums has gone below the normal level. What actually this is? This is called a gum recession in a dental term which we normally define dental term as detachment of the free and the attached gingiva below its normal level. To understand simple terms, because of various factors, the gum level comes below the normal level where it is supposed to get attached and this results in more exposure of the toot h surface and this is a sign of a weaker gum. There are different reasons of receeding gums. The most common cause of receeding gums is a bad oral hygiene. If you have not visited a dentist for many years and routine oral prophylaxis or what we call as cleaning, then you are often , the patient is often seen suffering from gum recession. So oral prophylaxis is important. Another common cause is teeth crowding, malalignment of the teeth. So there are different varieties like crowding of teeth or deep bite and in these kind of cases, oral hygiene maintenance is often tough. So that is contributory factor. Apart from this, the stress on the teeth directly imparts forces on the gums. As a result the weaker gums often comes down. That is another sign of gum recession. Third thing is genetic. If the parents are suffering from gum recession, the children are often seen suffering from a similar kind of disease but this can be treated as well and another cause of gum recession is various accidents. If the patient has met with any road traffic accidents even there also the gum level can come down. Now these are the various factors of gum recession. All these can be solved properly if you visit dentist, he will do a thorough examination, he might take x rays and then following this, first and foremost he will advise is oral prophylaxis or teeth cleaning. Once it is done, an initial treatment is done following this the doctor may advise you the correction of the etiological factors what all I have mentioned earlier and after these corrections, you can bring back the normal level of your gum by doing small surgical treatments like mucogingival surgeries and other initial small surgeries which are managed under local anesthesia and these are not painful at all.Many patients visit us, complaining of a gum weakening, bleeding from the gums and they often complain like, I feel like my gums are weak, they are going down and when you do examination you often see the detachment of the gums has gone below the normal level. What actually this is? This is called a gum recession in a dental term which we normally define dental term as detachment of the free and the attached gingiva below its normal level. To understand simple terms, because of various factors, the gum level comes below the normal level where it is supposed to get attached and this results in more exposure of the toot h surface and this is a sign of a weaker gum. There are different reasons of receeding gums. The most common cause of receeding gums is a bad oral hygiene. If you have not visited a dentist for many years and routine oral prophylaxis or what we call as cleaning, then you are often , the patient is often seen suffering from gum recession. So oral prophylaxis is important. Another common cause is teeth crowding, malalignment of the teeth. So there are different varieties like crowding of teeth or deep bite and in these kind of cases, oral hygiene maintenance is often tough. So that is contributory factor. Apart from this, the stress on the teeth directly imparts forces on the gums. As a result the weaker gums often comes down. That is another sign of gum recession. Third thing is genetic. If the parents are suffering from gum recession, the children are often seen suffering from a similar kind of disease but this can be treated as well and another cause of gum recession is various accidents. If the patient has met with any road traffic accidents even there also the gum level can come down. Now these are the various factors of gum recession. All these can be solved properly if you visit dentist, he will do a thorough examination, he might take x rays and then following this, first and foremost he will advise is oral prophylaxis or teeth cleaning. Once it is done, an initial treatment is done following this the doctor may advise you the correction of the etiological factors what all I have mentioned earlier and after these corrections, you can bring back the normal level of your gum by doing small surgical treatments like mucogingival surgeries and other initial small surgeries which are managed under local anesthesia and these are not painful at all.

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