What are the symptoms of gingival atrophy?

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When patients with gingival atrophy, the gingival margin of patients will gradually reduce to the enamel cementum below the boundary, resulting in patients with root gradually exposed, gingival atrophy can cause a lot of diseases. There are two types of gingival atrophy, they are physiological gingival atrophy and pathological gingival atrophy. With the growth of people's age, almost everyone will have more or less gingival atrophy. In fact, the healthy tooth tissue of adults will also have different degrees of atrophy and loss, reducing about 0.17 mm every year. With the growth of age, people will inevitably have gingival atrophy.

What are the symptoms of gingival atrophy?

First: when the patient's gingival atrophy occurs, the patient's crown will become very long, and the root will be exposed. At this time, when the patient's teeth are cold or preheated, and encounter sweet and irritating taste, the teeth will appear allergic phenomenon, and may also lead to pulpitis.

Second: gingival atrophy and usual brushing habits have a certain relationship, for example, mechanical gingival atrophy, the cause of the disease is mostly patients usually brush their teeth when they do not pay attention to, long-term horizontal brushing habits, can lead to patients with canine and bicuspid mechanical defects, this time can lead to gingival atrophy.

Third: the occurrence of gingival atrophy may also be due to some diseases, such as periodontitis can lead to gingival atrophy, this situation generally occurs after the treatment of periodontitis, patients do not maintain good oral health, so that the patient's periodontal pocket than soft tissue recession, from childhood to root exposed to cause gingival atrophy.

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Gingival atrophy may also occur because of some diseases, such as periodontitis, which can lead to gingival atrophy. This situation generally occurs after the treatment of periodontitis, and the patients do not maintain good oral health, which makes the periodontal pocket of the patients shrink more than the soft tissue, and causes gingival atrophy from childhood to root exposure.