What symptoms accompany gum recession?
Depending on the underlying disease, various accompanying symptoms can occur. If the receding gums are caused by an incorrect brushing technique, the affected teeth are usually only slightly to moderately sensitive to cold. However, when periodontitis manifests itself, there is often heavy bleeding of the gums and loosening of the teeth due to bone recession.
These symptoms are caused by bacteria typical for periodontitis. Provided that they are kept in check by proper treatment, the disease cannot spread any further and the condition remains stable. There are also various drugs that can cause gingivitis with later gingival recession.
These are, for example, drugs that are administered for immunosuppression in organ transplanted patients. If gum recession occurs without inflammation, it is often caused by external force. There are several possibilities for this.
- Very often there is the problem of brushing the teeth too hard and with the wrong technique. In doing so, the gums are incorrectly loaded and the tissue is “scrubbed away” over time. The process can be stopped by using a soft toothbrush and adjusting the brushing technique.
- A further cause can be an excessive force exerted when repositioning teeth with braces.
Especially when a new arch is inserted into the braces, the teeth are exposed to great forces. If these forces are too strong, the gums cannot adapt to the tooth movement as quickly and recede. In this case, the patient should go directly to the orthodontist and the force should be reduced so that the damage does not get worse.
With a little luck, the receding gums will even recede again.
- Finally the crunching (bruxism) must be mentioned. During grinding, individual teeth are usually heavily loaded at night and pressed into the bone. This damages the tooth holding fibers and the gums retract over time.
If a receding gums with gingivitis occurs, the affected person suffers in most cases from periodontitis.
This is a chronic disease of the periodontium, in which there are many pathological, i.e. pathological, germs in the oral cavity, which cause the inflammation. It starts with gingivitis, which spreads more and more over time and causes large gum pockets to develop. If no treatment is initiated, the inflammation progresses and the bone is also affected.
It goes back. As the gum adapts to the bone, the known gum recession occurs and the root of the tooth is exposed. Sensitivity to thermal stimuli such as cold is the result and the teeth loosen with time. The receding gums cannot be reversed. Only a gum transplantation can cover the exposed tooth necks again.
