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Your gums are a much prised procession in your mouth: they house your teeth and ensure that you have a stunning smile whenever you go dashing around central London. However, they are very delicate and are certainly not indestructible; they are also very vulnerable to infection and disease, so you need to put in a lot of effort to keep them healthy- as you do with your teeth. Food can easily get lodged in your teeth and up around your gums, so you should make flossing an important part of your oral cleaning each day. If you do start to have problems with your gums though, you need to pull out all the stops to settle them down again; massaging herbal products into them will promote blood flow and stimulate them. Bleeding gums need urgent attention as it could indicate disease has crept in; alter your oral hygiene, seek solace and advice from your dentist. Again, going herbal will help, as will rinsing your mouth out with salt water. But your gums don’t react well to smoking or a dodgy diet when they start to have problems, so you are going to have to think about altering your ways- that’s if you want to avoid the horror of gum disease and keep your teeth in your mouth for the rest of your life.