Let me start off by saying that it's not quite fair to blame IVF for this. But I've finally had my dentist appointment about my bleeding gums today. I had to wait quite a while to get an appointment which is a pain. It was in the middle of the working day but otherwise I would have had to wait even longer.
Anyway, yes, I suffer from pregnancy gingivitis and in addition got normal gingivitis, too. (Whatever the difference is.) Great.
Pregnancy gingivitis is quite common in pregnancy, so why do I blame IVF? Well, I had't been to the dentist for something like 1 1/2 years even though I used to go every 6 months. I have a very small mouth and the teeth are very tight together (I had quite a few removed as a child but still...) so gum decease is always a high risk.
But I needed all my 'dentist appointments' for those hundreds ad hundreds of hospital appointments. You need excuses, right? And you can get away with 4 dentist appointments a year, plus flat tyres, broken washing machine, flat car battery, gas service engineer etc. So I wasn't able to have real dentist appointments.
I'll have to go back tomorrow for a thorough cleaning, but the dentist said I might need several appointments to combat the gingivitis...
September is such a busy month at work for me and I already have 1 midwife and 2 hospital appointments over the next 8 days. It's the last thing I need on top of that. But it needs to get sorted. I had to neglect my teeth too long and untreated gingivitis has been linked to low birth weight and premature birth. I can't risk that.
At least I managed to get an appointment for my lunch hour tomorrow (even though I planned to work through lunch and eat at my desk).
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