Pyorrhoea

If gums are healthy, teeth will also be healthy. If gums get infected, first of all teeth will start loosening from their sockets and, when there is first blood-letting and then pus fonnation, the infection will mingle with food and, thus, vitiate and infect entire digestive process.

Causes & Symptoms

• Lack or absence of roughage in daily diet and dental care.

• Blocking of food particles within teeth and putrefactation therein.

• Excessive tartar formation.

• Proliferation of bacteria.

• Foul smell from the mouth and unpleasant taste.

• Inflammation and ulceration of gums.

• Bleeding from gums, even after slightest provocation or touch.

Ayurveda attributes causes of pyorrhoea to lack of dental hygienic, poor diet, and costiveness of bowels.

Home Remedies

• As a first step, brush your teeth with twig of neem Banyan tree. Milk (latex) of the prop root is astringent, antiseptic, prevents formation of pus, stops bleeding. Massage your gums and teem with alum mixed mustard oil daily, and rinse mouth with water mixed with alum. Rub your gums with Bhadramustadi Gutika. Danshana Sanskara Churna may be used as tooth powder.

• As for diet, increase sufficient amount of roughage, lemon, citrus (but sweet) fruits, and green & leafy vegetables. Before going to sleep, gargle your mouth with alum mixed water. Cultivate the habit of rinsing your mouth, after taking any type of food whether in liquid, solid, or semi liquid form. Add foods that abound in qualities of vitamin C, other Vitamins & Minerals.

• Teeth and gums play a vital role in digestive process. It is the job of gums to keep teeth under a firm grip When the grip or hold loosens, due to various factors detailed earlier, teeth will start loosening from their sockets and ultimately crumble decay. When there is bleeding and pus formation, it's a clear signal that dental care is at fault. Toothache, swelling of gums, blood oozing and pus formation, pain etc are merely symptoms of the chief monstrous malady. Most of the digestive problems owe their origin to unhealthy condition of teeth and gums. Hence, lose no time in seeking proper treatment. Let it not be forgorton that a loosened and painful tooth can cause cancer also. Tooth extraction ought to be the last option, when all other options have failed but pain, swelling, pus and bleeding need to be treated without delay so as to avoid further serious complications.