{"id":409,"date":"2023-03-17T06:14:09","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T06:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drgaryb.com\/?p=409"},"modified":"2024-01-17T07:11:21","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T07:11:21","slug":"gum-emergencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drgaryb.com\/gum-emergencies\/","title":{"rendered":"Gum Emergencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tissues of the gums, tongue, or cheek lining are vulnerable to accidents like sports injuries, bites, or scalding liquids.<\/p>\n<p>If you have an injury to the soft tissue of your mouth, you should:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rinse out your mouth with salt water<\/li>\n<li>Remove any visible debris<\/li>\n<li>Contain bleeding by pressing a clean, damp material to the area for about ten to 15 minutes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Injuries and infections of the soft tissue of the mouth may sometimes require immediate attention.<\/p>\n<p>Seek immediate care when:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>you have a <a href=\"https:\/\/drgaryb.com\/periodontal-gum-disease-westminster\/\">gum<\/a> abscess, a pus-filled sac caused by infection<\/li>\n<li>You have something lodged in your gums that cannot be easily taken out, as it can cause infection<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Seek emergency care if the bleeding doesn\u2019t stop after ten to 15 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tissues of the gums, tongue, or cheek lining are vulnerable to accidents like sports injuries, bites, or scalding liquids. If you have an injury to the soft tissue of your mouth, you should: Rinse out your mouth with salt water Remove any visible debris Contain bleeding by pressing a clean, damp material to the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,11],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drgaryb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drgaryb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drgaryb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drgaryb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drgaryb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/drgaryb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1447,"href":"https:\/\/drgaryb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/1447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drgaryb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drgaryb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drgaryb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}