There is a stereotype that the mouth is inhabited only by pathogenic bacteria, which provoke tooth decay, gum disease, and with them it is necessary to fight. This misconception leads to the fact that for the care of the oral cavity the means that violate the natural microflora of the mouth are often used. This microflora lives on all the mucous membranes of the digestive tract - from the oral cavity to the rectum. The first bacteria appear in a person at birth, during passage through the birth canal. In the microflora of the mouth, both beneficial and harmful bacteria live. Useful bacteria include bifido and lactobacilli. Disease bacteria appear in the mouth a little later, by the time of the first teeth eruption.
Modern medicine is aware of the presence of beneficial bacteria in the microflora of the oral cavity. Digestive processes in the body do not begin in the stomach, as is commonly believed, but already in the mouth. This is due to the bacteria living in the mouth and the properties of saliva.
Dwelling in the mouth of bifido and lactobacillus do not allow the development of a pathogenic microflora. Therefore, with a decrease in their number in the microflora of the mouth, the pathogenic bacteria begin to multiply more intensively. Bleeding gums, bad breath, the appearance of a plaque on the teeth and on the tongue can be manifestations of dysbacteriosis of the oral cavity. It is necessary to provide conditions for the existence and reproduction of beneficial bacteria - to treat bleeding gums and to prevent other dental diseases. The use of antibiotic preparations for the treatment of bleeding gums can lead to the disease progressing.
In medicine, they learned to use beneficial bacteria to treat bleeding gums. On sale there are chewing bifidotabletki which accept after meal for replenishment in a mouth of a useful microflora. There are other ways of saturation with beneficial bacteria of the oral cavity. Since bacteria, useful for the health of teeth and gums, are the same bacteria that live in the intestine, you can use the drugs used to treat ordinary dysbacteriosis to make up for their quantity in the oral cavity. It is recommended to use sour-milk products enriched with bifido and lactocultures.
Do not abuse the long-term use of therapeutic toothpastes. They should appoint a dentist. Many antiseptic components in the composition of therapeutic toothpastes kill not only pathogenic, but also beneficial bacteria. This means that, in order to treat bleeding gums, you will have to put much more effort into the future, because pathogenic bacteria recover and multiply much more actively than useful ones. If you constantly use therapeutic toothpaste, your teeth may darken and a hard-to-remove coating appears on them.
It is also not recommended to use rinsing with iodine and soda, salt, as well as some commercially available rinsing liquids that have a strong antiseptic effect for a long time to treat oral diseases. It is proved that mouthwashes can not fight the plaque on the teeth.
For daily oral hygiene, it is recommended to use toothpastes with triclosan. He kills pathogenic bacteria and does not act on useful ones. Use toothpastes containing extracts of plants such as oak, sage, yarrow. There are also toothpastes containing extracts of arnica and marigold. You can independently make solutions for rinsing: for one glass of water, take one teaspoon of arnica extract or calendula and half a teaspoon of salt. Anti-inflammatory and antibacterial properties also have tea tree oil, which also does not have a depressant effect on the natural microflora of the mouth.
In some cases, the bacteria for the treatment of inflammatory processes in the mouth replace the traditional treatment with antiseptics and antibiotics. In the presence of inflammation, you can make kefir baths, i.e. just keep in the mouth for some time a sour-milk product with the content of the right crops.
Treatment of advanced inflammatory processes, which is performed with the help of antibiotics, must necessarily be completed by taking medications that restore the microflora of the mouth, for example, lactobacterin.