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…)
How Lasers Affect Your Experience With Periodontal Care
When periodontal disease is not addressed, the toll it takes on a person’s smile can be considerable. As bacteria cause attachment loss, teeth can start to loosen, and eventually become lost. The microbes responsible for your poor gum health can also create new difficulties for you by moving to other parts of your body. Our Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontal practice is prepared to deal with the consequences of periodontal disease. We offer treatments to remove damaged tissues and encourage healthy growth, as well as services to restore the size and health of your jawbone and gum tissues. Because we rely on lasers when treating patients, we are able to minimize any changes to healthy tissues. We can also provide services that lead to faster and easier healing! (more…)
3 Questions You Might Have About Laser Periodontal Care
When you start to find out just how destructive periodontal disease can be, it can be easy to commit to seeking treatment. As you look into options for care, you can find out about the benefits of services that rely on lasers to more carefully manipulate your soft tissues. What makes laser treatment different than services that rely on manual tools, and what should you expect from care? At our Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontal practice, we rely on lasers to make care more comfortable and precise for patients. These tools can make more accurate cuts that do not require sutures, and they can encourage faster healing times! In addition to directly addressing infected tissues, lasers can help us make jawbone grafting and gum grafting procedures easier for patients. (more…)
How Laser Treatment Helps With Jawbone Restoration
Through the use of lasers, our Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontal practice can offer important services that are more precise and less invasive. One area where lasers can benefit patients is in work to restore jawbone density. A jawbone grafting procedure can be a necessary part of addressing periodontal disease. The tissues of your jawbone, like your periodontal tissues, can be destroyed if a problem with periodontal disease has not been addressed. Through augmenting the bone and making it more dense, we can improve support for teeth, and make it possible for you to receive dental implants. Lasers help us manipulate the tissues around the bone, which helps to minimize bleeding while controlling the effects on your gums and jaw. (more…)