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Colorado Springs Dentist: About Periodontal (Gum) Disease
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L Rogers Sterling
Colorado Springs Dentist: About Periodontal (Gum)
Disease
This article takes a look at periodontal (gum) disease and the
various consequences of allowing this oral condition to go
without treatment.
Periodontal disease is pervasive...
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Colorado Springs Dentist: About Periodontal (Gum)
Disease
This article takes a look at periodontal (gum) disease and the
various consequences of allowing this oral condition to go
without treatment.
Periodontal disease is pervasive health issue in the United States.
And yet, one might say
with confidence that few people even know what periodontal disease is.
The Colorado
Springs dentist in Pueblo will tell you that this oral affliction is characterized as an acute
and chronic bacterial infection of the soft tissues surrounding the teeth.
But perhaps the
words ‘gingivitis’ and ‘gum disease’ might sound more familiar to you.
Break it down and
it’s easy to understand what the seemingly complicated terminology means, explains the
Colorado Springs dentist in Pueblo:
- Peri means ‘around’
- dont means ‘teeth,’ and
- -itis is the medical suffix indicating infection.
So, altogether, periodontitis indicates an infection of the soft tissues, or gums, surrounding
the teeth.
Left untreated,
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