I plan to go ever 3 months, but 10 months elapsed since last visit.
Ayurvedic treatment involves mustard oil and turmeric . Also rinsing with oils. I’m gonna try that too.
Inflammation.
I don’t think one can wear out gums and still have teeth. When the gums go the teeth fall out.
Twizzlers was a bad joke. I eat loads of sugar though. I thought burning it off with exercise was OK. Well, no more. I love twizzlers, cookies, cake, candy, caramel, popcorn, rice, juice, smoothies, pie, jam, jelly, ice cream, esp. Ice cream..
It’s over. I’m old.[/quote]You are correct in that when your gums recede due to periodontitis, your teeth don’t have as much tissue to hold them in your mouth and can become loose. There comes a time in life when what you did in the past can catch up with the current state of your health. Better to know now than a few years from now when you could end up with full-blown periodontitis. Be glad you have dental insurance, scaredy.
Also, another, even more frightening reason to cut refined sugar out of one’s diet, imho …. is the threat of being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer (albeit too late and nearly always incurable). First of all, I’m not a medical professional and therefore not an “expert” on this subject. But over the past few months, I have been going over and over in my mind why I have managed to lose no less than FOUR VIP’s from my life (all aged 58-64 at the time of death) and ALL very athletic, muscular and in good shape (none drank or smoked or were anywhere near “obese”). When I started to compare these individuals (all male) with one another, they all had one thing in common and that was that they were all addicted to refined sugar (at least in front of me). They liked Cokes, pie and sweet rolls for breakfast (often buying their breakfasts from convenience stores on the way to work or machines at work), ate candy bars during the business day, went to fast food joints for lunch ordering shakes or another sweet soft drink with their meals and usually always had dessert again in the eves when they ate dinner at home. They had this type of diet nearly their entire lives. Their athleticism, even in middle-age, kept them from gaining weight. They ranged in height from 5’9″ to 6’1″. After diagnoses with this deadly disease, they lived 3, 4, 6.5 and 11 months. The one that lived 11 months elected to try a 5 month chemo regimen and radiation (cobalt) treatments at the time which adversely affected his quality of life for at least 5 months out of the 11 months he survived as well as burned his skin. All lost 1/4 to 3/4 lb of body weight per day (on avg) after diagnosis and weighed just 65-75% of their original body weight at the time of death with significant muscle wasting (cachexia). After diagnosis, their tumors seemed to double in size every 2-4 weeks and all suffered in pain in their last 3 months despite being given strong opioids both intravenously and orally.
This is just another reason to quit refined sugar, IMHO. At the very least, I believe a diet high in refined sugar (along with a high-fat diet) can contribute to pancreatitis, regardless of fitness level. Of course, YMMV. No one really knows the true causes of pancreatic cancer.
