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Home Remedies for Gums<\/strong><\/p>\n Oil Pulling<\/strong><\/p>\n Recently, the discussion has opened again into the possible health benefits of an ancient practice known as oil pulling.\u00a0 Oil pulling involves swishing oil in your mouth for a short period of time to treat certain conditions like migraines and diabetes.\u00a0 But there are some who even use it to help with bleeding gums.<\/p>\n According to the ADA (American Dental Association), there isn\u2019t enough evidence to support oil pulling to treat gingivitis. There are, however, a handful of studies that show the benefits.<\/p>\n The oil of choice for many to do oil pulling is an edible oil like sesame, olive, coconut, or sunflower.\u00a0 Swishing time ranges from 1 to 20 minutes.\u00a0 Make sure to speak to your dentist before trying it!<\/p>\n Dairy and Crunchy Foods<\/strong><\/p>\n All milk products contain calcium.\u00a0 Calcium is a nutrient that will help strengthen the teeth.\u00a0 There is a 2008 study available in the Journal of Periodontology found that people who eat dairy products regularly like milk, cheese, and yogurt battled less with gum disease. Alabama Fairhope Dentist<\/p>\n Eating something like carrots or celery can also help, too.\u00a0 It really is the \u201ccrunch factor\u201d that works instead of the nutrients they contain. Crunchy foods can help remove plaque from the teeth but there is no specific research on how the vitamin A in carrots can help with gum disease.<\/p>\n When you are chewing, the mouth will produce more saliva.\u00a0 The saliva washes away food particles and acids that cause much damage.\u00a0 Most veggies are low in sugar and high in water\/fiber content.\u00a0 This helps clean the teeth!\u00a0 \u00a0Alabama Fairhope Dentist<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Down by the Bay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dentist in Fairhope Home Remedies for Gums Oil Pulling Recently, the discussion has opened again into the possible health benefits of an ancient practice known as oil pulling.\u00a0 Oil pulling involves swishing oil in your mouth for a short period of time to treat certain conditions like migraines and diabetes.\u00a0 But there are some who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dental-faqs","category-general-dentistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweetwatersmile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweetwatersmile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweetwatersmile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweetwatersmile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweetwatersmile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sweetwatersmile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweetwatersmile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweetwatersmile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweetwatersmile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweetwatersmile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}