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By Dr. Harold Katz – bad breath EXPERT & Dental Surgeon

SUMMARY: Tonsil stones are very misdiagnosed and are more common than most people think. By knowing what they are, how they are caused, one can [...]

One major reason for painful gums is having food stuck between your teeth.
Food that gets jammed between teeth should be removed as soon as possible, with a gentle toothpick motion or with dental floss or dental pics.
If you are not using any of these items, how on earth are you expecting to get food trapped [...]

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One of the major gum infection causes is poor dental hygiene.
If you get food stuck between your teeth and where your gums meet your teeth and that food stays there, you can infect your gums.
Likewise, if you fail to clean away the soft plaque that forms around your teeth [...]

Never ever ignore swollen gums infection.
This could be the start of something that ends in the removal or falling out of a significant number of your teeth.
It’s that serious.
Swollen gums may be accompanied by blood when you brush your teeth.
This is probably not painful, but puzzling, until you realise that the presence of blood means [...]

Is your gum infected?
Is it sore, swollen, bleeding….. oozing pus?
Gum infection is a serious dental problem and one that has to be addressed before the oozing pus stage is reached otherwise you are in real danger of losing your teeth.
When you brush, if you get bleeding gums (gingivitis) that’s the point at which you need [...]

How to cure gum infection.
Gum Infection, the facts
Gum infection or disease, can be known as periodontal disease. This is an infection of bone and tissue around your teeth.
Gum diseases get in under the gum line and break down the gum tissue.
The 2 stages of this gum infection
Gingivitis
which is fairly easily treatable, where you have [...]

If you have a build up of tonsil debris, then what you really have is tonsil stones.
Tonsil stones or tonsilloliths are a build up of food matter, mucous and other bits and pieces that gum together and lodge in the back of your throat.
They are compact and smelly and often cause irritation to the throat.
These [...]

Tonsils and bad breath don’t have to go together, but they often do.
Tonsil crypts or pockets can be a great little hiding place for tonsil stones (tonsiliths or tonsilloliths) which grow from food particles and other debris at the back of your throat.
This means chronic bad breath, but it can be treated if you go [...]

If you have gum swelling that is irritating or painful, you must not ignore it.
You may have some food or other item lodged in your gum or stuck between gum and teeth. This needs to be gently removed before your gum gets infected.
Your oral hygiene routine needs to include attention to gums, ensuring you clean [...]

Don’t you just hate it when you’ve had a meal and you get a piece of food jammed between your teeth and for some reason, you can’t get to it with a toothpick or piece of floss at the time and you end up with a gum infection swelling at the base of your tooth.
Then [...]