Tag: bleeding gums treatment Glen Iris

When Glen Iris patients arrive at Tooronga Family Dentistry with bleeding gums, they typically expect to hear about gum disease or aggressive brushing. What many don’t anticipate is Dr. Kaufman’s diagnosis: scurvy—a vitamin C (ascorbic acid) deficiency that most people associate exclusively with 18th-century sailors, not modern Australians. Yet Dr. Kaufman has found many young…