The main cause of gingivitis

We know that there are many people in our lives who are no strangers to gingivitis, because this is a common dental disease in our lives, but because there are many people who do not pay attention to the occurrence of this disease in our daily life, this is not right, so let's learn about the causes of gingivitis.

Gingivitis is an acute and chronic inflammatory disease that occurs in the gingival margin and gingival papilla, which is more common in children and adolescents, and the main symptoms are swollen and painful gums, bleeding, etc. It belongs to the category of "tooth declaration" in Chinese medicine.

Etiological pathology

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the disease can be caused by unclean mouth, food residues accumulate between the teeth, and over time decay into poison, damp poison invades the gums and swells and pains. Or eat the spleen and stomach, spleen deficiency produces dampness and heat, dampness and heat accumulate in the stomach and intestines, follow the meridians, fumigation of the gums, resulting in stagnation of qi and blood, swelling and pain and hemorrhage. Or due to excessive irritation and excessive depression, causing stagnation of liver qi, depression for a long time and turning into fire, liver fire is reversed, and burning the filthy flesh. Or due to the external invasion of wind and evil, the evil leaves the meridians, resulting in the congestion of the meridians, the blood and qi are blocked, and the blood and qi fight with the evil for a long time.

Modern medicine believes that long-term irritation such as plaque and local foreign bodies such as dental calculus, food blockage, and overhanging process of filling are the main causes of this disease. Gingivitis can also be caused or aggravated by dental deformities, systemic factors such as endocrine disorders, vitamin C deficiency, nutritional disorders, and systemic diseases, and mouth breathing is often an important factor in proliferative gingivitis of anterior teeth

Bacterial infections are also the cause of the disease, and common bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus, pneumococcus, streptococcus and other bacteria produce toxins to cause inflammation of periodontal tissues.

After reading the above description, do you know what are the causes of gingivitis, so it is very helpful for us to effectively understand this dental disease in our daily life, and when dental abnormalities occur, we should go to the relevant dental examination and treatment in time.