8 Essential Home Remedies For Periodontal Disease

Periodontal disease is a serious gum disease, and if left untreated, could lead to teeth loss. Initially the disease begins as gingivitis, where in the gums bleed continuously and become red, inflamed and swollen. If gingivitis is left untreated, it leads to periodontal gum disease.

Advanced periodontal disease can only be treated through flap surgery, which is extremely painful and the recovery from the aftereffects takes substantial time. However, early intervention with prompt supportive, precautionary and treatment approach in the form of home remedies can be extremely beneficial. There are some amazingly superb home remedies for this condition like the ones given below.

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8 Home Remedies for Periodontal Disease

Ensure Oral Hygiene

Oral health and hygiene is very important as proper hygiene protects not only your mouth, but also your teeth as well. Brush your teeth with a special deep-cleaning toothbrush – the one that goes deep under your gums and ensures proper cleaning. If possible, use only medicated or fluoride containing toothpaste and electric toothbrush.

Next, after every meal, rinse your mouth with a natural or commercially available mouthwash. If you don’t find any mouthwash, at least, clean your teeth and rinse your mouth properly with water.

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Use Sea-Salt Solution as a Mouthwash

Sea-salt solution is a wonderful saline mouthwash and is effective to control the swelling and inflammation in addition to reducing the bacterial growth. Add a few specks of sea-salt to a cup of warm water to prepare a sea-salt solution and use it as your mouthwash.

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Apply Tea Bags

Tea has got exceptional and amazingly beneficial properties because the active compounds present in it like catechins are powerful anti-oxidants. The other compounds like tannic acid and theobromine and theophylline have anti-inflammatory properties.

Take a tea bag and steep it in boiling water. Remove and cool the bag and feel it against your hand, and then place the tea bag on the affected gums and allow it to stay there for 6 minutes.

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Use Tea-Tree Oil

According to several research studies tea-tree oil possesses exceptional and wide spectrum anti-microbial activities as it is very effective against a wide variety of bacteria and fungi. In other words, tea-tree oil kills bacteria.

Therefore, add a few drops of tea-tree oil to your regular toothpaste and brush your teeth as usual; however, ensure that tea-tree oil is not entering your stomach because tea-tree oil is only meant for topical application, but not for oral use.

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Vitamin D

Vitamin D is an essential nutritional tool as it supports and performs enormous functions in the body ranging from calcium absorption, hormonal regulation to immunity enhancing and building roles.

In addition to all these vital functions, it makes calcium available for the bones and teeth, and thus makes them strong and healthy. Therefore, eat calcium rich foods like milk, milk products – yoghurt, cheese and almonds.

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Vitamin C

Vitamin C is known for its healthy benefits especially for its role in maintaining proper dental health, and if you have any dental disease, then along with vitamin D, prefer using vitamin C as well. Vitamin C improves blood circulation, stops bleeding from the gums and builds healthy tissues, which is a must particularly during periodontal disease.

The fruits that are rich in vitamin C include all citrus fruits, tomatoes, papaya, kiwi, mango, grapes and strawberries. Being a very powerful antioxidant, vitamin C promotes healthy connective tissues and ligaments growth, along with bone regeneration – a must for periodontal disease.

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Use Baking Soda and Vinegar

Baking soda use for treating your diseased teeth has been well supported by scientific research. Though you require very meager amount of baking soda to clean your teeth, yet it is very effective in warding off harmful bacteria from the deep tooth pockets and cavities.

Similarly, you can also use vinegar as both teeth whitener and cleanser because its potential is quite similar to that of baking soda. Apply a few specks of baking soda onto your brush and brush your teeth as usual, and then rinse after brushing the teeth.

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Prefer a Healthy Diet

Good diet along with proper and appropriate dietary supplements becomes quite a necessity if you develop infectious and extremely invasive disease like the periodontal one. The preferable diet should be rich in plant-based products and compounds like antioxidants, flavonoids, phytohormones and pigments as these are powerful anti-oxidants.

For instance, apples, papaya, carrots and berries are rich in carotenoids, flavonoids and antioxidants. Carrot is rich in Vitamin A or Beta carotene. Therefore, consume those foods that are rich in folic acid, copper, Selenium, zinc, magnesium, and vitamins C, D, E and A. Similary, eat ginger, garlic, and honey as they are rich in antioxidants and antibacterial compounds. Moreover, turmeric and ginger are also anti-inflammatory with antibacterial ctivities.