Dental lasers provide periodontal treatment for our patients with comfort and precision. We can use options like LANAP and REPAIR with WaterLase to improve your oral health and avoid issues like tooth loss. In today’s blog, your Encinitas/San Diego, CA, periodontist talks about the benefits of our dental lasers.
The Need for Laser Periodontal Treatment
We often recommend dental laser treatment to help address periodontal disease, managing the issue so you avoid periodontitis and the risk of adult tooth loss. Dental lasers can take on more advanced stages, in which the disease is too severe to be treated with a scaling and root planing alone. You should contact our team for treatment when you begin to experience possible symptoms, such as soreness in your gums, redness in the tissues, or bleeding when you brush and floss. Also let us know if you experience swelling in your gums, or if the tissues recede to make teeth appear longer than usual.
Treatment with Comfort
Our team can examine your smile with advanced digital imaging technology to assess the presence and severity of the disease. From there, we can create a treatment plan to address the issue, which often includes our dental laser treatments, such as Fotona, LANAP, or REPAIR with WaterLase. The technology provides treatment with precision and comfort, in fact some rarely require the use of anesthesia at all. The technology can target the gums with precision to address the disease portions and remove them, while leaving healthy tissue intact. The lasers destroy harmful bacteria in the process and lower the risk of bleeding, infection, and swelling afterward. Since we don’t need scalpels or sutures, the area heals faster. In fact, you may return to your normal routine in as little as a day or two of rest.
Managing Your Oral Health
Following treatment with advanced technology, we can offer preventive care to better manage your smile and keep the disease in check. For example, we could recommend a cleaning or Supportive Periodontal Maintenance every three to four months to remove all plaque and tartar buildup. We could also control harmful bacteria with Ozone Therapy, and may recommend changes to your diet and oral hygiene routine.
If you have any questions about how we manage your gum health with our dental lasers, or if you recognize the symptoms we discussed and want to schedule a consultation, then contact our team today to learn more and get started.
Schedule Your Appointment for Periodontal Care
Our team wants to provide care to keep your smile healthy and whole for years to come. To learn more about our approach to periodontics and our use of advanced dental lasers, call Dr. Ann Kania in Encinitas, CA, today at 760-642-0711.