First, let's look at the causes and specific treatments of both!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="2" > gingivitis</h1>
pathogen
The cause of gingivitis is relatively clear, and its causative factor is mainly plaque, and the lesion is limited to the gums. Therefore, removing the causative factors and eliminating plaque can quickly restore healthy gums.
Treatment
If it is mild gingivitis, it can be restored by simply cleaning the teeth, cleaning the calculus and plaque, and controlling the inflammation. If there is a problem with gingival hyperplasia, part of the gum should be removed to restore the physiological shape of the gum. Through treatment, the inflammation of the gums is eliminated and the gingival morphology is restored. However, after treatment, it is necessary to clean the mouth carefully, maintain and consolidate the treatment effect, and need to achieve good oral hygiene habits such as brushing teeth every morning and evening, rinsing after meals, etc.
However, if gingivitis is not taken seriously and not treated in time, the bacteria will further invade, penetrate deep into the periodontal tissue, and eventually develop into periodontitis.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="15" > periodontitis</h1>
Symptom 1: Bleeding gums
Symptoms of periodontitis are redness, swelling, bleeding, and not only when brushing teeth, but sometimes bleeding may also occur when talking, eating, especially biting hard objects, and sometimes spontaneous bleeding.
Symptom 2: Periodontal pockets are formed
Under normal circumstances, the depth of our healthy gums is not more than 2 mm, and if it exceeds 2 mm, it is a periodontal pocket.
The formation of the periodontal pocket indicates that inflammation has developed from the gums to the periodontal tissue, causing the deeper periodontal tissue to become infected, chronically destroyed, and purulent secretions can overflow from the periodontal pocket.
Periodontitis does not cause tooth loosening in the early stages, but if there is no timely treatment in the early stages, when chronic destructive inflammation develops to a certain extent, the supporting power of periodontal tissue will be greatly weakened, and tooth loosening will occur.
Symptom 3: Gum atrophy
Gum recession is also a symptom of periodontitis, but it is often not easily noticed by patients. This is because the gums are compressed by calculus for a long time, irritating the gums. As a result, the gingival edge appears horizontally retracted. As for senile periodontal tissue withdrawal, it is generally a normal physiological withdrawal.
Once this symptom occurs, the patient's teeth will feel sensitive and sore when they encounter cold, hot, sweet, sour and other foods or mechanical stimuli.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="37" > So, to summarize the difference between gingivitis and periodontitis, there are mainly the following 4 aspects:</h1>
1. Gingivitis is only the inflammation of the gum tissue, the appearance of redness, swelling, appearance and other phenomena; and periodontitis not only appears in the inflammation of the gums, but also includes the inflammation of the entire periodontal tissue.
2. Gingivitis does not have bone destruction; periodontitis will destroy the alveolar bone, accelerate the lowering of the gumbed, and absorb the alveolar bone.
3. Gingivitis does not cause teeth to loosen, and teeth can be loosened or even fall out in the later stages of periodontitis.
4. Although gingivitis appears such as redness and swelling of the gums and deepening of the gingival groove, periodontal pockets are not formed; periodontitis is formed due to the degeneration and destruction of gingival fibers, combined with epithelium proliferation to the root side.
Of course, if you can't judge whether it is gingivitis or periodontitis, you should go to a professional stomatological hospital in time to receive a professional examination, and then treat it according to the situation of the examination. To the end of the problem! Don't delay, the dental problem will only get worse and worse.