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Airi
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Hi,
Sorry but I'm just going to vent and rant in here. Any advice are welcome, and really appreciated.
I guess it's my fault for neglecting my oral health and avoiding dentist for 20 years. (my last dentist visit was when I was 12 and its a must for all students). After that I never ever go to dentist even when my tooth comes off and some teeth even emerge over the loose teeth before the loose teeth fell.
I only do brushing and occasionally using mouthwash and rarely floss (only when food stuck in between teeth). My gum has bleed in the past while brushing and flossing, but it just once a while, so I ignore it.
I'm not scared of dentist or doctor, it just that I don't want to hear any bad news. Cause for me it's enough hearing this news from them about my parents and my brother. (my mom got breast cancer, dad got stroke and my brother got nephrotic ) So, hearing more bad news will bring stress to mom and me. So I avoid them totally.
Until 3 month ago, my gum start to bleed on daily basis, (3 or 4 times a day sometimes more) . The first two months I just ignore it hoping it will stop. But when the third month come it didn't seem to lessen, I decided to do something.
I change my toothpaste, I use parodontax. It lessen the bleeding but still happen for more than twics daily. And I take courage to go see a dentist in general hospital . The dentist said my gum was inflammed due to plaque and calculus build up. And there was hole in 3 of my teeth.
He decided to do scaling, after that my gum still bleed but only twice daily. I up my brushing from twice a day to three times, still my part of my gum bleed a lot, while other part just bleed a little or stop bleeding totally.
After two weeks of my first visit, I go to the dentist again to fill the hole, and I told the dentist about the bleeding (he ask about my health condition to rule out other reasons, even though I'm in the obese category, but I don't have high blood pressure or diabetes and no sudden weight loss , so other reasons was rule out). He than did a thorough check to see if there is something more serious than inflammation, but there's none.
But he find plaque deep in one of the bleeding gum, and goes really deep to clean it. And also fillings the hole in one of my teeth, he don't want to do two other hole on my wisdom tooth in fear that it will irritate my gum more. (since both of it grow parallel to my gum). He also tell me to come to him if anybody the wisdom tooth hurt, so he will remove it.
The doctor said that my gums are healing nicely and there is less swollen area from the previous appointment. The hole also not so serious. He also told me to see him before the year end if there is nothing serious.
Sorry but I'm just going to vent and rant in here. Any advice are welcome, and really appreciated.
I guess it's my fault for neglecting my oral health and avoiding dentist for 20 years. (my last dentist visit was when I was 12 and its a must for all students). After that I never ever go to dentist even when my tooth comes off and some teeth even emerge over the loose teeth before the loose teeth fell.
I only do brushing and occasionally using mouthwash and rarely floss (only when food stuck in between teeth). My gum has bleed in the past while brushing and flossing, but it just once a while, so I ignore it.
I'm not scared of dentist or doctor, it just that I don't want to hear any bad news. Cause for me it's enough hearing this news from them about my parents and my brother. (my mom got breast cancer, dad got stroke and my brother got nephrotic ) So, hearing more bad news will bring stress to mom and me. So I avoid them totally.
Until 3 month ago, my gum start to bleed on daily basis, (3 or 4 times a day sometimes more) . The first two months I just ignore it hoping it will stop. But when the third month come it didn't seem to lessen, I decided to do something.
I change my toothpaste, I use parodontax. It lessen the bleeding but still happen for more than twics daily. And I take courage to go see a dentist in general hospital . The dentist said my gum was inflammed due to plaque and calculus build up. And there was hole in 3 of my teeth.
He decided to do scaling, after that my gum still bleed but only twice daily. I up my brushing from twice a day to three times, still my part of my gum bleed a lot, while other part just bleed a little or stop bleeding totally.
After two weeks of my first visit, I go to the dentist again to fill the hole, and I told the dentist about the bleeding (he ask about my health condition to rule out other reasons, even though I'm in the obese category, but I don't have high blood pressure or diabetes and no sudden weight loss , so other reasons was rule out). He than did a thorough check to see if there is something more serious than inflammation, but there's none.
But he find plaque deep in one of the bleeding gum, and goes really deep to clean it. And also fillings the hole in one of my teeth, he don't want to do two other hole on my wisdom tooth in fear that it will irritate my gum more. (since both of it grow parallel to my gum). He also tell me to come to him if anybody the wisdom tooth hurt, so he will remove it.
The doctor said that my gums are healing nicely and there is less swollen area from the previous appointment. The hole also not so serious. He also told me to see him before the year end if there is nothing serious.