The work to restore your smile and health in response to periodontal disease can sometimes call for treatment to address tooth loss. Over time, bacteria can destroy the tissues that help keep your teeth in place, leading to losses that hurt your smile and dental function. While dental implants can provide important support for prosthetic appliances, patients are not always ready to undergo treatment to have them placed. Jawbone deterioration will occur over time after you lose teeth. To address this, our Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontal practice can recommend a jawbone grafting procedure. Using lasers to perform this treatment benefits you because it provides a less invasive treatment experience, and these tools shorten recovery times! (more…)
Removing Unhealthy Tissues With Lasers
The work needed to address periodontal problems will vary between patients. After all, an infection’s impact on your gums and your overall well-being will change over time if you do not take action and address this matter. When prompt care is delivered, scaling and root planing can remove bacteria before there are complications that require more involved services. However, for someone who does not receive treatment in time, the right procedure may call for the careful removal of diseased gums and ligaments to facilitate a better recovery. At our Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontal practice, we can determine if this approach is necessary for you. If it is, we can use laser tools to more carefully remove tissues and bacteria to address your condition! (more…)
How Lasers Manage Periodontal Problems
Are you taking issues with your periodontal health seriously? Ignoring warnings about gum disease, or letting signs of an infection go unchecked, can lead to consequences like tooth loss. When not managed, periodontal disease can also have a negative effect on your general health! The good news is that an infection can be managed. At our Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontal practice, we rely on laser technology to tend to problems with poor gum health. We can use advanced technology to both fight periodontal bacteria and remove tissues that have been damaged due to infection. Lasers also help us perform grafting procedures that are less invasive and boast shorter healing times. (more…)
Laser Treatments Can Shorten Recovery Times
Periodontal treatment helps manage problems that people with gum disease are likely to experience. At our Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontal practice, we use laser technology to provide services that are more precise, that reduce your risk for infection after a procedure, and generally shorten recovery times. We can use lasers to directly fight bacteria and remove tissues that have become infected due to your condition. We can also use this technology to provide solutions when you need gum or jawbone grafting treatment. We should note that in addition to offering advanced treatments with lasers, our periodontal practice provides a range of treatment options, as well as preventive services to help you avoid further difficulties. (more…)
Lasers And Gum Grafting Treatment
Problems that affect your periodontal health can affect your smile more severely than you might realize. Because one consequence of advanced gum disease is tooth loss, many people who struggle with this condition can require prosthetic treatment over time. Another concern for your smile is gum line recession. Addressing this problem can improve the way you look and offer benefits for your gum health. At our Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontal practice, we can make the gum grafting treatment experience easier for patients by using laser technology. Our laser tools allow us to rely on the Pinhole Surgical Technique, something that removes the need for suturing and makes fewer overall changes to your periodontal tissues. (more…)
How Lasers Affect Periodontal Services
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…)