I have done a search on this forum and found no cases reported of this disease. I also know that this is a rare disease. Has anyone had or encountered this disease before? If so, please let me know how the disease was treated.

I have read the symptoms and believe I have this disease. I have also read various sources that site the treatment to be 2 different methods:

1. Scaling and root planing

2. Taking antibiotics

For obvious reasons, I would definitely like to use method 2. I am 22 and don't think that my gums are damaged much. I went to the dentist 5-6 months ago for general cleaning and wisdom teeth extractions, and the dentist told me I should floss more regularly. The dentist didn't mention that I needed scaling/root planing (so probably just a mild case of gingivitis). So the swollen gums and bleeding is probably from trench mouth and not from gingivitis/periodontitis.

Has anyone experienced treatment with method 2?

By the way, since many WW1 soldiers had this problem it wouldn't have been cost effective or efficient to treat all soldiers with method 1, so method 2 should have worked for most of them, right?

Well you may have to do both actually. If you have gingivitis, you may need deep cleaning and antibiotics. Since you are young, have it checked right away just to be sure, I just had full gum this morning on my bottom teeth, that's when they cut your gums away, scrape your roots and stitch it back together. My pockets were between my teeth, and I did not floss regularly when I was your age. The surgery it self was painless, but after the meds. ware off it has been pretty uncomfortable all day. Not to mention the $2000.00 for the surgery it self. So don't wait and check it out now.