the decaying composites are, in some places, starting to turn over, and the last dentist i spoke to seems to have been spot on correct - there's no tooth decay anywhere, but the decaying composite is exposing some serious gaps. there are some places where the hydroxyapatite (or some other combination of my existing routine) seems to be making a difference in closing the gap and there are some places where it isn't.
i've been avoiding the antibiotics because they may interfere with iron absorption, but i'm going to have to get back to that soon. my viewpoint right now is that, while some attempts at regrowing gums are necessary, i'm probably going to need to fill a couple of the gaps in with something, eventually. i think there's only one that i'm seriously concerned about. i have until september to keep applying hydroxyapatite, which is my next cleaning.
my bottom teeth are more crooked than they were last year, indicating that it's probably the root cause. there's one that's been squeezed almost entirely out and that i may have to give up on; it's currently healthy, as far as i can tell, but it's been badly warped by the pressure from the incoming incisor and there's probably no answer besides eventually pulling it. ironically, it probably won't create a gap because it's getting squeezed out entirely.
but, i started to wonder about my exfoliation routine today....
what the doctor old me is that the kind of recession i have is almost always caused by brushing back and forth, which i am sure i've never done. i brush circularly, and i brush up and down, but i never brush side-to-side, and i never have. like, i know better than that, and i have since i was six years old.
but, something that could be creating that kind of pressure - besides the crooked teeth - might be the pressure i create on the side of my face when i'm exfoliating my skin, which i've been forced to do more of since i moved here because this basement has unusually dry air (due to the dehumidifer running upstairs). it's just something i never thought about before, but if i'm looking for sources of sawing motions on my gums, that would be it, not poor brushing.
i've looked it up online and, at the least, nobody seems to have put that together, before.
but, i wonder if there's not something to it...