Posts Tagged ‘hygienist’

Dental Myth Buster series: Bleeding gums (or How I learned to stop worrying and love the hygienist)

Continuing my theme of addressing common misconceptions in dentistry, this week I’m going to talk about bleeding gums aka ‘gingivitis’: what causes it, how to prevent it and what happens if it gets ignored…..
One of the most common questions a dentist gets asked is ‘Doc, my gums are bleeding, am I brushing them too hard?’ [...]