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Discover LudwigThe word "gums" is a perfectly valid word in English
You can use it as a plural noun to refer to a person's soft tissue that surrounds and supports the teeth. For example: "Good oral hygiene is essential for keeping your gums healthy."
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gums
noun
Plural of gum
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I had no more than a few two pence pieces for the phonebox and maybe 75p for entry, a bottle of pop and some wine gums on the way home.
Sean O'Faolain considered no one spared: "We see the prostitute, the beastly peasant, the timid bourgeois, the civil servant – his favourite subjects – in an unpitying light that exposes their wrinkled faces, their painted gums, their frayed cuffs, their shifty eyes, their hearts that have dried like peas".
This is the apathy that seeps round your gums when you watch a tosser in a nice suit that you've paid for, lying to you on national television.
Some opt for simple clean-ups, for plaque and swollen gums, some have their ragged edges filed, some have plastic bonding to cover blemishes, some have gum-shield-style "invisible" braces with names such as Invisalign, some have porcelain veneers fused to their teeth.
Woe betide those who charged in flapping their gums, asking questions that had already been covered multiple times.
Some manufacturers, including e-cigarette makers that are part of big tobacco conglomerates, have applied for their products to be given medicinal licences as nicotine replacement therapies similar to gums, sprays and patches.
They show spectacular variety in shape, shade and the angle at which they sprout from our gums.
"Sometimes the front teeth are of different lengths and you can have the gums contoured and made to look straighter," Druian says.
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In a new policy paper on how to respond to their growing popularity the RSPH says: "Electronic cigarettes are significantly less harmful than smoked tobacco, and despite some products being visually similar to cigarettes, they are essentially nicotine containing products, or NCPs, like patches and gum".
But then his attention fell upon the dagger of bone sticking out of my gum.
Some campaigners had called for e-cigarettes to be subjected to the same regulation as nicotine replacement therapies (NRT) such as patches and gum.
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