{"id":2056,"date":"2013-06-19T19:40:53","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T19:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.napervilledentistry.com\/?p=2056"},"modified":"2018-01-17T17:26:13","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T17:26:13","slug":"why-gums-bleed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.napervilledentistry.com\/blog\/why-gums-bleed\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Gums Bleed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/napervilledentistry.sl1.infogenix.com\/blog\/assets\/uploads\/2013\/06\/dental-cleaning-resized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2057 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/napervilledentistry.sl1.infogenix.com\/blog\/assets\/uploads\/2013\/06\/dental-cleaning-resized.jpg\" alt=\"Dental Cleaning checking gums\" width=\"342\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.napervilledentistry.com\/blog\/assets\/uploads\/2013\/06\/dental-cleaning-resized.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.napervilledentistry.com\/blog\/assets\/uploads\/2013\/06\/dental-cleaning-resized-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 342px) 100vw, 342px\" \/><\/a>Bleeding gums are unhealthy gums. Bleeding gums are a sign of infection.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">At regular exam and cleaning appointments, your hygienist and dentist should be checking your gums.\u00a0 Your hygienist and dentist should be completing a full periodontal charting at least once yearly.\u00a0 Periodontal charting is measuring the neck of the gum tissue surrounding each tooth and evaluating the bone support.\u00a0 A normal healthy pocket surrounding the gums is from one-three millimeters without bleeding.\u00a0 Bleeding is a sign of gingivitis and gum disease.\u00a0 If bleeding gums are left untreated, the infection increases and the bone or the support of the tooth decreases.\u00a0 In addition, the bacteria in the mouth can go through the blood stream.\u00a0\u00a0 If there is inflammation in the mouth, it sends an inflammatory process through the rest of the body. Gum infections are connected to heart disease, diabetes, low birth weight babies, and lung infections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Contact us if you haven&#8217;t had a cleaning within the last 6 months 630.369.5225.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: absolute; top: -1999px; left: -1988px;\">630.369.5225#sthash.V7cgf1J8.dpuf<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bleeding gums are unhealthy gums. Bleeding gums are a sign of infection. At regular exam and cleaning appointments, your hygienist and dentist should be checking your gums.\u00a0 Your hygienist and dentist should be completing a full periodontal charting at least once yearly.\u00a0 Periodontal charting is measuring the neck of the gum tissue surrounding each tooth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[802],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.napervilledentistry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.napervilledentistry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.napervilledentistry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.napervilledentistry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.napervilledentistry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2056"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.napervilledentistry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3823,"href":"https:\/\/www.napervilledentistry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions\/3823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.napervilledentistry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.napervilledentistry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.napervilledentistry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}