Acupuncture And Gum Disease

Perhaps you ask how acupuncture and gum disease are connected. If you would ask me two years ago, I would surely tell you that there is no connection. I thought acupuncture is something for pain but for gum disease, for sure not.

My periodontal gum disease started two years ago. At the same time I started acupuncture treatments. My friend Debbie, a doctor of Chinese medicine, diagnosed the dampness in my body that goes up to my gums and spleen deficiency. I tried like two or three treatments and then left because I didn't have the feeling it really helped me. After my Odyssey with braces and finally a soft gum tissue grafting, my gums still were my weakest part of my body and now totally irritated and burning.

I finally was so desperate that I called Debbie, my friend who is a doctor of Chinese medicine, and ask her to help me. I was sorry that I stopped the treatments two years ago and after the Western medicine couldn't help me, this I felt was my last opportunity. Also I started to change my diet to no spicy food, low

Since around six weeks I receive acupuncture treatments for my gums but also for my spleen deficiency that is totally connected. I also get herbs that help me to improve and stimulate my digestive system. Can you imagine that your digestion is directly connected with your mouth and your gums?

So far I understand is my spleen deficiency issue something that creates dampness in my stomach and then in my gums. I take a special mouth wash for the dampness in my gums and herbs for the dampness in my stomach.

But back to the acupuncture. Energy flow is very important for gum health. Dampness in the stomach and spleen deficiency prevent a healthy energy flow. Acupuncture helps to establish this and hold the energy flowing.

One time acupuncture doesn't help. It is not like a pain pill you take and then an hour later, you feel much better. It is an ongoing process and after these six weeks, I can see that the improvements are huge. I am not tired or exhausted, don't have migraines, and the best, my gums are really doing good.

It is still amazing to me how much the organs are connected and communicate with each other, in a positive and in a negative way. I can see now, if the body doesn't stay in balance, one ore more organs will suffer.

I am sure you can imagine how happy I am that I have my gum disease in control and try to strengthen my gum health.

Sluggish Spleen

Sluggish Spleen? Try tapping. I went to my acupuncturist before I went to the dentist who recommended an oral appliance to treat my receding gums. She diagnosed a "sluggish spleen" that would effect the bad blood flow in my legs and my infected gums.

By working with heated up herbs and acupuncture needles, treating the blood flow from the legs up, she tried to increase my sluggish spleen. My acupuncturist also recommended to start tapping. Tapping is kind of an acupuncture treatment without needles, known as acupressure. You tap with your fingers from your forehead down to your chest to stimulate the acupressure points and to stimulate the "flow" for improving the spleen.

After few weeks with treatments, I got impatient. My infected gums receded more and more. I really got scared. So I finally agreed to try the oral appliance to stop my gum disease.

It became a pretty pricing dental treatment what didn't help at all at the end. But I shouldn't say that. Wearing an oral appliance evened out my bit and balanced my jaw so that I don't have migraines, back pain or neck pain anymore.

Unfortunately, it took 6 months to finish it and it didn't help at all with my receding gums either.

At no point so far any dentist I met recommended to go to a periodontist. I guess everybody wanted to treat my gum disease in their own way.

I finally decided to look for a local periodontist.