While grafting procedures are not necessary at all times for patients with periodontal disease, they are can be important in some circumstances. Poor periodontal health can lead to the recession of your gum tissues, which can actually make you more susceptible to infections over time. If your issues with periodontal disease include tooth loss, jawbone deterioration may have taken place and affected your candidacy for treatment with dental implants. Our Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontal practice is prepared to help you deal with these effects. When performing jawbone grafting and gum grafting treatments, we rely on lasers to do more precise work, and to give patients shorter and easier healing periods! (more…)
Is It Time To Discuss Laser Treatment For Your Gum Disease?
The progression of periodontal disease can have serious effects on your oral health, and it can even cause problems for your overall well-being. If an infection is not addressed in time, gingivitis can worsen and leave you struggling to manage your condition. Without treatment at this point, you can experience tissue damage that leaves you vulnerable to tooth loss and even issues with your general health caused by the spread of bacteria through your bloodstream. At our Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontal practice, we can provide an evaluation to determine just how serious your infection has become. In order to preserve your smile and periodontal health, we can recommend laser treatment to deal with the more worrying effects of gum disease. (more…)
Laser Periodontal Services Lead To Shorter Recovery Times
When periodontal disease causes problems for your oral health, the consequences can be serious. Infections can lead to worrying tissue damage, gum line recession, tooth loss, and problems with your jawbone. If you have suffered the effects of periodontal disease, targeted treatments provided by your Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontal practice can help. We often rely on lasers to take care of our patients. Because treatments for periodontal disease can require work to manipulate soft tissues, a procedure can make a period of recovery necessary. Lasers make more precise cuts and minimize tissue damage, so they can actually make your recovery easier and shorter!
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Why We Offer More Than One Approach To Laser Treatment
When it is not being treated, periodontal disease can have a devastating effect on your smile. The bacteria attacking your gums can cause the gradual destruction of the tissues that are giving your teeth necessary support. In time, that deterioration of these tissues can result in tooth loss! Your infection is also a concern because it can have negative effects on your general health. At our Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontal practice, we offer a range of procedures that can help those who are impacted by periodontal disease. These services include treatments with laser technology to carefully clear away bacteria and damaged tissues. We actually use more than one type of laser at our location, which allows us to tailor a treatment to benefit individual patients! (more…)
How Jawbone Grafting Fits Into Plans To Address Gum Disease
The time a person spends NOT having issues with periodontal disease addressed can have lasting consequences. An infection that attacks your gums can lead to the destruction of tissues that support your teeth. This damage, along with the loss of teeth roots that stimulate your jawbone, can lead to bone deterioration that has cosmetic and oral health consequences. Too much deterioration can actually affect your ability to move forward with prosthetic dental work. Fortunately, a jawbone grafting procedure can restore density and strength. At our Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontal practice, we can restore the condition of your jaw through a grafting procedure that relies on laser technology. (more…)
Can Laser Care Help Me Avoid Issues With Tooth Loss?
When you have trouble with your periodontal health, you face a greater risk for suffering tooth loss. When an infection is not being managed properly, attachment loss can occur, effectively weakening the support that teeth have over time. When the damage to tissues supporting teeth becomes serious, the only treatment option left may be to have them extracted! Fortunately, there are procedures that can help you fight bacteria and regrow healthy periodontal tissues. Our Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontist’s office is able to combat infections with treatments that rely on lasers. Through these treatments, we can help you avoid tooth loss while also managing the growth and spread of bacteria. (more…)
How Lasers Help Us Deal Directly With Periodontal Bacteria
To prevent the buildup of periodontal bacteria, you should maintain good brushing and flossing habits. When a person sticks to an effective routine, they can stop harmful microbes from gathering beneath their gum line and causing an infection. If your routine is not able to stop gingivitis, treatment in the form of a scaling and root planing can effectively clear away bacteria attacking your periodontal health. So what happens if gum disease progresses further? If you have to deal with periodontal disease, laser treatment may be called for in order to fight the infection. Our Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontist’s office has helped many people through the use of lasers to clear away microbes and infected tissues in order to encourage recovery. (more…)
Finding The Right Treatment For Your Periodontal Problems
The toll periodontal disease can take on your smile and health may be more severe than you currently believe. Did you know that tooth loss in adults is more often connected to periodontal problems than any other issue? Bacteria that gather beneath your gum line will cause harm to the tissues holding your teeth in position, loosening them or even causing them to be lost. Your infection also puts your general health at risk, as bacteria that move through your bloodstream can affect other parts of your body. At our Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontal practice, we rely on treatment techniques featuring soft tissues lasers to fight the effects of periodontal disease. With the right procedure, we can help you regrow healthy tissues, and we can repair damages done to your gums and jawbone. (more…)
How Lasers Fit Into Plans To Restore A Receding Gum Line
Periodontal disease causes more than just problems with gum line recession. When this condition is not being treated, a patient can experience attachment loss, which means the tissues that are holding teeth in place are destroyed. This is why the infection is the leading cause of tooth loss in adults. You also have to worry about periodontal bacteria creating new problems for your health, or interfering with your management of other conditions, as periodontal bacteria can move to other areas. With that said, restoring a person’s gum line can help them regain healthy periodontal tissues, and it can also provide protection against future problems. At our Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontal practice, patients’ gum lines can be restored with the Pinhole Surgical Technique, which relies on laser technology to assist in a less invasive approach to gum grafting. (more…)
How Lasers Help Us Deal With Periodontal Bacteria
When bacteria gather beneath your gum line, they are capable of creating more problems than you might realize. These harmful microbes can cause gradual attachment loss, which leads to the loss of teeth. They can also affect your general health when they travel to different parts of your body, which can create new issues or worsen existing problems with your well-being. At our Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontal practice, we rely on lasers to help patients who are struggling with periodontal disease. Lasers allow us to carefully trim or move periodontal tissues with smaller and more precise cuts than physical tools can make. The lasers also allow us to remove infected tissues, which can start the process of new tissue growth that helps you recover from your infection. (more…)