There are several important periodontal services our Encinitas/San Diego, CA practice can provide when gum disease affects a person’s health and quality of life. As part of our scope of services to fight poor periodontal health, we do offer several procedures that use lasers to tend to patients. By providing laser-based services, we can make treatments available that better preserve healthy tissues and minimize bleeding. As a result, your procedure can be more comfortable than you expect, and you can enjoy a shorter and easier recovery period! Care with these advanced tools can play an important part in addressing infections directly, and in providing grafting procedures when needed. (more…)
How We Make Laser Periodontal Care Safe And Accessible
Preventive measures to keep people safe against the threat of coronavirus have led to many changes in the way people work, socialize, and manage their general daily responsibilities. At our Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontal practice, we have made changes to our typical operations so that we can continue to safely see patients and help them address concerns around periodontal disease. Those changes include adjustments to how we schedule appointments, and in the technology we maintain to prevent infection risks. Because we have responded in these ways, we are able to continue safely seeing patients and providing laser periodontal services. (more…)
Jawbone Grafting Can Help You Qualify For Implant Placement
Are you ready to receive a dental implant and restore your full smile? While you may be eager to start treatment and address tooth loss, problems with jawbone deterioration may impact your ability to undergo implant placement. Fortunately, this is something that your Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontist can help you address! Our practice performs jawbone grafting treatments with laser tools. Lasers offer several benefits over using manual tools to manipulate your gums, teeth roots, and jawbone structure. A more precise treatment can be followed by a shorter and easier recovery, which means you will have an easier time progressing from your grafting procedure to receiving your implant! (more…)
How Multiple Laser Tools Help Us Personalize Treatment
As you learn about the effects of periodontal disease, you can experience understandable feelings of alarm. After all, this infection can interfere with your ability to manage other health conditions, make you vulnerable to tooth loss, and even adversely affect your risk for heart disease and other problems! Our Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontal practice is prepared to work with people who want to protect themselves against the harm that periodontal disease can do. One thing we can do is recommend laser-based services to remove the bacteria that have accumulated below your gum line. Thanks to our use of more than one type of periodontal laser, we can provide a more personalized approach to your treatment! (more…)
How Lasers Fight Bacteria That Cause Periodontal Disease
As bacteria build up at our gum line, we become vulnerable to gingivitis, the initial stage of a periodontal infection. Over time, harmful microbes that start to move beneath our gum line can accumulate and do more harm to our gums, eventually leading to a more advanced infection, or periodontal disease. Letting periodontal disease go untreated can lead to serious consequences. Those consequences include issues like tooth loss, significant gum line recession, and problems with your general health. One way to fight this condition is to use laser tools to carefully remove bacteria on the roots of teeth. At our Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontal practice, we provide periodontal treatments with lasers to help patients fight the effects of periodontal disease. In addition to providing more precise care than manual tools, laser technology can make recovery after treatment shorter and easier! (more…)
Including Laser Gum Grafting In Your Periodontal Treatments
As your Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontist works out how to take care of your smile, they can look into addressing any changes that may have impacted your gum line over time. Recession often affects people who have issues with gum disease. When this becomes an issue, it can affect a person’s confidence in their smile, and it can create more problems for their oral health. We provide a less-invasive form of gum grafting treatment that relies on laser technology. Because of this, we can make the procedure less involved, we can remove the need for suturing, and we can make your healing easier! Lasers also help us fight active problems with periodontal disease – to fully support your needs, we may recommend gum grafting treatment as well as laser periodontal services to fight a serious infection. (more…)
Should You Look Into Laser Periodontal Treatment?
Is your trouble with periodontal disease serious enough to call for a trip to see a periodontist about treatment? While gingivitis is something that you can fight with effective preventive care and a visit to your general dentist, periodontal disease can do more harm to your well-being, and it can be more difficult to address. Without treatment to manage the condition, you can experience problems managing your general health, particularly if you are trying to address other health concerns, like diabetes. You also face a higher risk for tooth loss because of your infection! At our Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontal practice, we can discuss services to fight your infection. Because we rely on laser tools to tend to our patients’ gums, we can perform treatments that preserve more of your healthy gum tissues and shorten your healing time! (more…)
Addressing Jawbone Deterioration Before Implant Placement
Dental implants give people who have lost teeth more than just a means of keeping a dental prosthetic in place throughout the day. When an implant holds your restoration in place, it provides more stability for neighboring teeth, and it creates stimulation in your jawbone that helps to preserve its health and strength through the years. Jawbone deterioration is a real concern after tooth loss – unfortunately, it can also complicate plans to place dental implants! Our Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontal practice can address this problem if it is preventing you from moving forward with prosthetic treatment. Because we use laser tools when performing jawbone grafting procedures, we can minimize bleeding and damage to tissues, provide more precise care, and even make your recovery easier! (more…)
Can I Still Schedule Treatment For Periodontal Disease?
People have made a great number of adjustments in their routines and habits to reduce their risk for exposure to coronavirus and prioritize their safety. To make sure that our patients are able to safely access and enjoy periodontal services, our Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontal office has changed our office policies and implemented new technology to preserve a safe environment. We have followed guidelines from the ADA and CDC and changed our approach to scheduling so that you can still count on us for help if you are fighting gum disease. For those who need to do something about more significant periodontal problems, we can provide treatments with laser tools that make procedures less invasive, more precise, and easier to recover from. Because of this, we can prevent potentially serious problems while making involved procedures easier to arrange and enjoy! (more…)
Your Experience During And After Laser Periodontal Treatment
With laser technology, our Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontal practice is able to address difficult issues with gum disease more precisely, and in a way that reduces patient discomfort. As part of treatment for advanced periodontal problems, treatment to both remove infected tissues and directly fight bacteria can be recommended. We have access to both LANAP and REPAIR WaterLase laser technology, so we can choose an approach that is more comfortable for you. By helping you manage your periodontal disease, we can protect you from potential problems like tooth loss, and we can remove bacteria buildup to help reduce your risk for complications that impact your overall well-being! (more…)