Naturally, the color of the gums matches the color of human skin. Those with brown skin have darker gums than those with white skin.

Among the substances that are mainly responsible for the color are melanin and also creatine. These substances are present in certain proportions in the gums to give them the natural color, but an imbalance may occur in these percentages present, causing blackening in the color of the gums, which is called black gums or periodontal spot, and it is either In the form of dots, or in the form of spots or pigmentation of the gums completely and the color varies between brown and black, this pigmentation in itself we call inorganic pigmentation of the gums.

And gum pigmentation causes other diseases. Some of them are hormonal diseases such as Addison’s disease whose symptoms are black gums and some reasons such as smoking may cause pigmentation of the gums even in people with white skin and chronic diseases such as kidney failure and sometimes the dentist may cause pigmentation of the gums through the wrong use of silver fillings (amalgam) or some coatings that contain Minerals and some cases of implants may have an effect on the color of the gums.

The treatment was previously limited to scraping the gums from the spots and pigmentation from the outside with local anesthesia and then wrapping the scraping with a rubber membrane and giving visiting appointments to detect the wound, and the auditor may suffer from pain and infections from that

Now, these pigmentations are treated at Kadoun’s laser clinics, where the periodontist uses a specialized laser device to remove these pigmentation, through which he shines erbium laser beams on the spots to disappear without pain, infections or any other side effects to return the gums to their healthy condition.

Or by gum grafts, which express a graft or reinforcement of the keratinized or pigmented gum tissue