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Your Gums & Vitamin C - What's the big deal?

Hello November! So here we are in winter, no point denying it, and if you know me you'll know I LOVE it, dark nights tiny little lights, amazing.  This however seems to be the good old cold and flu season (although I can manage to get a particularly spectacular head cold at all times of the year) and people start talking about being 'run down' and needing a bit of a boost, so we reach for the 'Beroca' or some form of Vitamin C or preferably modify our diets to include as many good vitamins as possible to give us a bit of extra protection. Did you know though how good Vitamin C is for our gums too?  I have been recommending to my patients for years that they think about how much vitamin C they have in their diets, and possibly to supplement with something over the counter as necessary (according to the manufacturer guidelines of course) and I think people just think this is something that people in a healthcare profession just say.  Vita...