Gum Disease Treatments

Everyone knows that tobacco is bad for your health. But did you know that one of the most prevalent negative outcomes of tobacco use is periodontal (gum) disease? And not only does tobacco increase your risk, it also slows down healing when you have dental work or treatments for gum disease.

It doesn’t have to be smoking, either, because smokeless tobaccos are even worse! Just a pinch between the lip and gum, they say. And what’s it doing to the lip and to the gum? It’s up to no good, that’s what!

So if you need more reasons to quit your tobacco habit, add gum disease to your list.

Have you heard this one? How do we know that the person who invented the toothbrush was from Arkansas?

Because if he was from anywhere else, he would have called it a “teeth-brush.”

Seriously, we live in the Missouri Ozarks, so I can joke about toothlessness a bit. Many of the people in our rural area (hillbillies?) have missing teeth, even by the time they are 30 or so. The reasons are many, but tobacco is definitely one of them. Poor dental hygiene is another. And as for knowing about using an essential oil formula for healing of the gums - forget it!

But now that you know - forewarned is forearmed. How about making an effort to quit that tobacco habit and get on a program of gum health?

Last Wednesday, Cabe had to have his wisdom teeth pulled along with a few fillings. Of course, like a typical teen, he didn’t tell me until today that the dentist said his gums looked better. Might that be from a few days of using Oram Plus?

Cabe also mentioned something practical about using Oram Plus that I’d like to pass on. I noticed that when you try to apply the oil to your toothbrush, it’s hard to see the drops if you shake the bottle. Cabe figured out that if you just hold the bottle over your brush, the drops will fall out one at a time right where you want them. Of course, Mom couldn’t figure that out.

About our son’s mouth here - btw, his name is Caleb, but we call him “Cabe” all the time - that crooked front tooth happened probably because he knocked out a baby tooth when he was just a toddler. He was climbing up onto a piano in a home where we were visiting when he fell against the piano.

That kind of info is embarrassing for a big teenager, isn’t it? Oh, well, can’t help being a proud mommy!

Anyway, this is his “before” Oram Plus picture. It was taken a few days ago. He just had his wisdom teeth extracted Wednesday of this week. It will be nice to get all these visits to the dentist over with.

Healing with Essential Oils and Aromatherapy is an article that tells about how essential oils are used in healing. While a conventional medication, or a toothpaste for instance, can’t really penetrate down to the region in the gums that needs healing, essential oils can. The aroma penetrates into the body, which is why they call it “aromatherapy.”

I brushed my teeth with Oram Plus last night and was amazed at how clean my teeth felt, even though I only used a couple of drops. It has an essential oil taste, but not near as nasty as some. In fact, it was rather refreshing.

If you are wondering if you might have gum disease, here are some of the more common symptoms. Do you have chronic bad breath that you just can’t seem to get rid of? That’s a real sign! Bleeding gums are also a symptom. The gums can also look red or discolored, but the real sign is that they start to shrink back from the teeth. Your teeth start having larger spaces between them, and ultimately get loose. My husband has dentures now because of gum disease. His teeth got so loose he was able to pull a few of them out by hand. Hopefully the rest of us will stop the progression of this disease before that happens!

One kind of funny thing is, he has actually grown a wisdom tooth since having his teeth all pulled and getting dentures! Fortunately it doesn’t interfere with his false teeth, but frankly, I don’t think he brushes his tooth very often, LOL!

Anyway, I read a long time ago that gum disease was the most common disease on earth. I guess everyone gets it to some degree or another if they live long enough.

Oram Plus is an all natural remedy designed just for healing gum disease. Since the dentists admit they have no real remedy, why don’t you give Oram Plus a try? It certainly costs a lot less than a visit to the dentist, and you get some neat freebies with your order, too! Check it out! (Great guarantee, too!)

Yesterday our son had to have his teeth cleaned and his gums treated at the dentist’s office. The hygienist numbed his gums with about 6 or more shots. Then he used a device to remove most of the plaque, followed up with a great deal of scraping. The next thing he did was to measure the pockets between our son’s teeth.

He then proceeded to apply a medicine called Arestin to the roots of his teeth. Fortunately we have Medicaid! This treatment would have cost about $1600 otherwise!

I feel sure Oram Plus, being a natural method, is effective and much less invasive or expensive. Still, we were glad to be able to get the treatment done. However, the hygienist said that the Arestin would have to be applied every three months! Who could ever afford that? Although, he said it wouldn’t have to be quite as thorough an application as the first time.

Fortunately, our son’s gums are not sore today. He really has done well. It was a trying ordeal having all that treatment done yesterday.

The term “periodontitis” refers to bacterial infections of the gums. These infections cause many problems. They cause inflammation of the gums, but also cause bone to be lost near the teeth. The term “gingivitis” refers to mild gum inflammation. When it has been happening for several years and has started to cause bone loss, the name Periodontitis applies.

Traditional dentists and dental hygienists recommend having the gums and teeth cleaned professionally (and expensively - by them!) every 3 or 4 months. I wonder if that is really necessary. It seems like there should be some natural remedy that could counteract the progression of gingivitis and periodontitis.

Actually, in the case of our seventeen year old son, we have ordered a bottle of Oram Plus.

This preparation is a combination of natural essential oils, herbs and plant extracts… our son is scheduled to have a gum treatment done tomorrow afternoon. I’ll be sure to fill you in on everything we find out.

For a young person, a diagnosis of gum disease can seem like a ball and chain. One eighteen year old we know was told he would have to have his teeth professionally cleaned every three months for the rest of his life if he wanted to keep them. What a drag! And what an expense! And even for those of us who are older, it still sounds scary.

So what causes gum disease? And is there anything you can do to hold off the progression? We’ll be looking for answers to these questions and more as we proceed with this blog. If you happen to have questions or comments, please post them! Let’s get to the root of the problem and find some solutions.

Welcome to our blog, over the next few months this blog will develop into a whole host of info regarding; gum disease, bad breath, receding gums, halitosis, bleeding gums, sore gums and inflamed gums… in the meantime (until this blog evolves) please check out our homepage www.gumdisease-treatment.com