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How much blood is normal with bleeding gums?

  • 04-12-2010 7:37pm
    #1
    nesf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,644 ✭✭✭✭


    Get bleeding gums on and off, usually just a small big of blood nothing major. The other night I was spitting out blood for well over 10 minutes due to a constant stream from my gums above one of my front teeth.

    Going to see my dentist soon anyway due to a separate issue, just wondering if this is normal for bleeding gums or not?


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  • #2
    btkm8unsl0w5r4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,535 ✭✭✭btkm8unsl0w5r4


    Bleeding gums are not normal, constant bleeding is not normal even from bleeding gums, get thee to a dentists ASAP.


  • #3
    DaveTwenty7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 236 ✭✭DaveTwenty7


    The surface area of your gums is approximately the same size as the skin on your forearm. If your arm bleed every time you washed them you would go get it checked out!


  • #4
    fifofum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41 ✭fifofum


    The risks of not attending to bleeding gums:
    --bad breath
    --gum recession (leading to unsightly large spaces between the teeth- trap food& can make your teeth look about 20years older than you are- literally, you look "long in the tooth"!)
    --tooth mobility&/tooth loss
    --tooth decay
    --undiagnosed underlying systemic disease

    ......to name but a few! See your dentist, get it sorted.


  • #5
    shell10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69 ✭✭shell10


    mine are the same half the time! was at the dentist a few months ago and they put me on seriously strong antibiotics but now there pumpin again and strangly enough 3 of my friends have the same problem!

    the dentist is def on the cards for me cause my gums seem to be goin translusent!!


  • #6
    ballsymchugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,939 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    shell10 wrote: »
    mine are the same half the time! was at the dentist a few months ago and they put me on seriously strong antibiotics but now there pumpin again and strangly enough 3 of my friends have the same problem!

    the dentist is def on the cards for me cause my gums seem to be goin translusent!!

    you've posted about wanting to stop smoking elsewhere. good chance you have ANUG if you needed antibiotics to sort it. the only decent chance of it going for good is if you stop smoking. then you can sort out the dodgy dreams!


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