Dr Lisa Brunett Facebook ad: “Real Reason For Gum Recession”

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I've spent 23 years as an OB-GYN watching women with receding gums during menopause. And there is a way to fix this without surgery that I have never once heard a dentist mention. I am a Board Certified OB-GYN, running a practice in Colorado. And as a gynecologist, I see women every day in peri and meno. All dealing with insane mood swings, sudden belly fat appearing, hormones shifting like a roller coaster — and they are all frustrated and I am their hope. They come to me for answers to questions that they don't have. And my job is to help them and sympathise with them. But more than once, many of them kept mentioning their receding gums, how their gum line started disappearing after peri. How it's receded so much that smiling hurts. And more than that, how their dentists are just straight up ignoring them. One patient mentioned her dentist just ignored the estrogen and receding gum connection and said "we'll monitor it" and handed her a water pik and told her to brush softer. And I WAS JUST FRUSTRATED. Not at the patients. But at the system. The system which is ignoring these women and blaming THEM for all the things they can't control. Telling them to "stay hydrated, eat healthy, reduce stress." Yes, sure, let me reduce my stress when my entire body is falling apart. And so I had to do something, so I started digging. Not about menopause. Not about how to fix recession. But about what actually CAUSES gums to recede at the EXACT time when estrogen drops. Article after article, most mentioning aggressive brushing, teeth grinding, genetics, etc. But nothing pointing out the actual root cause of why it happens at this exact time. If it was aggressive brushing or teeth grinding or even genetics, then the recession would start in the 20s or 30s and not in the 40s and 50s. The exact time when the hormones are shifting. That's when I came across this research paper which changed everything. See, our gum tissue is not soft tissue the way skin is. It's a highly structured collagen matrix. Collagen makes up approximately 60% of gum tissue by dry weight. It's the scaffolding — the physical architecture — that keeps your gums thick, dense, and firmly attached to your teeth. When that matrix is intact, your gums hold. They resist. They don't pull away. When that matrix breaks down, the tissue thins. It loses its grip. It begins to recede. After age 30, your body produces less collagen every year. By the time you're 50, you're producing approximately 70% less than you did at 25. And this happens right around peri and meno, which also contributes significantly to collagen loss, as does aging. Your gum tissue is starving for the structural protein it's made of. No amount of brushing replaces that protein. Good hygiene removes bacteria. It does not rebuild collagen scaffolding. So the tissue keeps thinning. The recession keeps progressing. And your dentist keeps measuring and telling you to keep brushing. The Journal of Clinical Periodontology published a 2019 meta-analysis of 11 studies across 2,847 patients. It confirmed that collagen depletion — not bacterial infection — drives recession in patients over 45 with otherwise healthy oral hygiene. Not bacteria. Collagen depletion. Your hygiene isn't the problem. The protocol treating your hygiene as the problem is. The problem is that most dentists aren't trained to see what's actually happening here. We study the whole body. They study one part of it. And here's my take on gum grafts. As an OB-GYN, I have done hundreds of surgeries in my career. But I ALWAYS avoid putting my patients under the knife. Because most surgeries only patch something. They don't fix the root cause. I studied what grafting is and it does exactly that. Taking tissue from the roof of the mouth or a donor and patching the recession. The collagen deficiency is still there. The structural breakdown is still progressing. In the adjacent tissue, in the surrounding teeth — the same process continues underneath, untouched. Grafting is like repainting a wall that's crumbling from inside. The surface looks good. For a while. I looked into what happens if recession keeps coming back. Here's what I found if the underlying cause goes unaddressed. It doesn't stay at the gum line. The tissue continues to thin and recede. Eventually the recession reaches the bone — the bone that holds your teeth in their sockets. When bone begins to resorb, teeth loosen. They shift. They can no longer be saved. I did some digging into studies, journals, articles and found out that periodontists in Europe have been working with topical collagen supplements for a decade. A DECADE. I had to let that sink in. Because I found nothing even close to that in American studies and dentistry. It emerged from German and Austrian research in the early 2010s — periodontists studying why some patients responded to grafts and others didn't, despite identical surgical technique. What they found was that non-responders had measurably lower collagen density in the surrounding gingival tissue. The graft had nothing healthy to anchor to. It wasn't surgical failure. It was structural failure. That research led to trials on whether rebuilding collagen density could stabilize recession without grafting — in early-to-moderate cases. The University of Heidelberg published a study involving 612 patients with moderate recession over 14 months. Two groups. Same hygiene protocol. Same cleaning schedule. Group B also applied hydrolyzed Type I collagen peptides directly to the gum line twice daily. At 12 weeks: Group A continued to recede. Group B showed tissue stabilization in 89% of patients. 34% showed measurable improvement in gum thickness. The study conclusion: "Topical collagen supplementation addresses the structural deficiency underlying age-related gingival recession, independent of bacterial load." Independent of bacterial load. Your hygiene doesn't determine this outcome. Your collagen does. I immediately got in touch with a dentist friend of mine in Switzerland who I met during my exchange at the University of Zurich. Told her about all this and she mentioned that they have been using this stuff for years. I asked her to send me the exact stuff that they used in this trial. I wasn't ready to recommend it to everyone. But I had one patient I couldn't stop thinking about. Let me tell you about her. Because her results are what I see when people finally address the right problem. She was 57. Had been monitoring recession since 52. Two teeth with significant root exposure. Her previous dentist had recommended grafting her four front teeth. She came to me for a completely different menopausal issue and mentioned this. I told her about all this. Collagen Loss. Receding Gum. Dentist Friend in Zurich. I recommended 12 weeks of topical collagen supplementation before making any surgical decisions. She was skeptical. Five years of perfect hygiene hadn't stopped anything. She didn't believe something applied to her gums could change what five years hadn't. I explained it simply. Brushing removes bacteria. That's what it's designed to do. It does not rebuild tissue. Your gums aren't breaking down from bacteria. They're breaking down because the structural protein they're made of is no longer being produced in sufficient quantity by your body. You can clean a building perfectly. If the steel framework is corroding, the building still falls. She agreed to try. Week 2: Gums felt less tender during brushing. Week 4: Less sensitivity to cold water for the first time in years. Week 8: No bleeding at the gum line. She said she couldn't remember the last time that had been true. Week 12: Her hygienist measured the recession at each site. Then measured again. Site 1: reduced from 4.2mm to 2.8mm. Site 2: reduced from 3.8mm to 2.6mm. Site 3: stabilized at 3.1mm — no further progression. Site 4: stabilized. She didn't need the four-tooth graft. I was just as shocked as she was. But more than that, I was frustrated and angry. Angry at how this American system just ignores these women who are dealing with gum recession during menopause. Angry at how far behind we are as Americans in terms of health care. Angry at the system which was just designed to extract money out of these women who are in tremendous pain. Women who felt like they were failing. Like their bodies were betraying them despite everything they did right. They weren't failing. The protocol was failing them. But the research exists. And you don't have to wait for your dentist to find it. If your gums started receding right around when your hormones shifted — if you've had grafts and watched recession return nearby — if you've been told your hygiene is excellent but your gums keep pulling away — The answer isn't to brush differently. It's to give your tissue what it's been missing. I'll leave a link below to the product I recommend to my own patients now. I have no financial relationship with this company. I recommend it because the mechanism is sound, the research supports it, and I've seen it work. You've spent years doing what you were told. It's time to address what you were never told.

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