Doctor Sunil, what about the dental health issues that you
see in
adults? What is the most common dental health issue that
you see in India?
You see a lot of gum disease
which is also promoted by things like tobacco
and supari. You see people who have broken chipped teeth
because of beetle nut. That is Supari again.
And of course regular, regular things like root canals,
missing teeth, everything. You know,
we have a multitude of problems,
but most prevalent would be gum disease.
What is gum disease and what are the symptoms?
What are the signs of it?
Right. So gum disease, basically when you
like Suchetan earlier said, there's a biofilm that deposits around
the tooth
that then gets infused with microparticles of food
that deposits in the neck
area between the tooth and gum.
Having done so, it it goes on the inside part
of the gum,
it's like a collar. It goes on the inside part
of the gum,
causes the gum to breakdown,
get infected, swollen and bleeding.
And when it goes a couple of millimeters deep,
it is often impossible to clean
in the with home care,
you have to go to a dental office to get
that removed properly so that it can regenerate to normal.
If you do it at the preliminary stage,
it will come back to normal.
But if it goes to an advanced stage,
it will only come back to normal to a degree
and you will lose some gum.
OK, and what happens if you lose some gum?
As as you keep losing gum along with the gum,
the bone underneath the gum which is supporting the tooth
keeps going down.
And then you have a lack of stability.
And eventually with the passage of time,
you have the teeth becoming mobile and you have advanced
gum disease and stuff which will need surgical procedures to
treat OK and that can result in tooth loss,
tooth loss, mobility and loss.
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