We often discuss how our soft-tissue dental lasers can help reshape the gums and remove diseased portions. But did you know we can also assist with more involved procedures? In today’s blog, your Encinitas/San Diego, CA, periodontist talks about jawbone and gum grafting with laser dentistry, restoring your smile following tooth loss and severe periodontal disease.

Soft-Tissue Dental Lasers

Our team can assist these procedures with a soft-tissue dental laser. The technology employs a concentrated beam of light that is calibrated for soft tissue use. Our team can use this to remove diseased portions of your tissues to help manage periodontal disease, and also improve the overall appearance of your smile. This can destroy pockets of harmful bacteria in the process. But our team can also assist with both jawbone and gum grafting procedures.

Jawbone Grafting

When you lose natural teeth, this could cause the jawbone to weaken. The body will stop sending doses of calcium and phosphorus to the jawbone around the missing tooth, which means the area will weaken and erode. Eventually, this could cause further tooth loss and an older appearance, leaving the smile too weak to support dental implants. But with ridge augmentation, we can add new tissues to the lower jaw to fortify it and ensure your smile can support one or more dental implants. The technology can help modify underlying structure as needed, and can destroy harmful bacteria in the process. Once we attach your dental implants, this will help keep your newly restored jaw intact, and allow your new teeth to stay in place for years to come, decades even!

Pinhole Surgical Technique

Instead of traditional gum grafting, we offer an alternative known as the Pinhole Surgical Technique. With this option, we will make a minuscule hole in the gums, so that we can add a special collagen material and then manipulate the tissues to cover the exposed portions of your smile. Ghis ensures exposed roots are covered so the risk of decay and infection lowers, and this helps improve the overall beauty of your smile too! No need to take tissue from other parts of your smile at all.

If you have any questions about how we use dental lasers to treat periodontal disease or to aid in procedures to rebuild your smile, such as jawbone and gum grafting, then please reach out to our team today. You can contact us and schedule your first visit of 2026, so we can help you obtain a full smile and better gum health.

Schedule Your Appointment for Laser Care

From jawbone to gum grafting, we can help your smile with advanced dentistry. To learn more about rebuilding and restoring your smile, call Dr. Ann Kania in Encinitas, CA, today at 760-642-0711.