“…There were previous reports on the prevalence of gingival bleeding. However, with few exceptions (Kallio, ; Kallio & Murtomaa, ), most examined the participants clinically, but did not ask whether they perceived that their gums bled (Abuhaloob & Petersen, ; Antunes, Peres, Frias, Crosato, & Biazevic, ; Brasil, ; Campus et al., ; Fonseca, Ferreira, Abreu, Palmier, & Vargas, ; Funieru et al., ; Gao et al., ; Laganà et al., ; Nicolau, Marcenes, Bartley, & Sheiham, ; Petersen, Hoerup, Poomviset, Prommajan, & Watanapa, ; Pitts, Chadwick, & Anderson, ; Rebelo, Lopes, Vieira, & Parente, ; Tomazoni et al., ; Vadiakas, Oulis, Tsinidou, Mamai‐Homata, & Polychronopoulou, ; Zhang, Xu, Liu, Lo, & Chu, ). Others assessed self‐reported gingival bleeding in adolescents (Ayo‐Yusuf, Reddy, & van den Borne, ; Mattila et al., ) and in adults (Lintula et al., ), but none (at least to our knowledge) assessed it on a representative sample of any nation.…”