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…)
Why Precision Matters During Periodontal Treatments
Your periodontal health matters in more ways than you might realize. If your gums are not healthy, you are susceptible to the development of periodontal disease, which has lasting consequences. Over time, the condition destroys the tissues that support your teeth, which is why people who suffer from this are vulnerable to tooth loss. It is also possible for the condition to affect your general health, as bacteria attacking your gums can move to other locations in your body. Through different services, your Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontist can fight the effects of periodontal disease by addressing bacteria, and by restoring damages that have already occurred. When performing treatments for patients, our practice uses laser technology to make work more precise. This makes it possible to preserve more of your healthy tissues, and it also leads to easier and faster healing. (more…)
Lasers Make Your Recovery From Periodontal Work Easier
It is important that someone with periodontal disease understand just how serious their condition can be. When this infection is not being managed properly, a person’s risk for tooth loss rises, and they become more vulnerable to other physical problems due to the potential spread of periodontal bacteria to other parts of the body. Our Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontal practice offers modern treatment solutions for people who need to take on problems that affect their gum health. Because we use lasers when working with periodontal tissues, our patients can feel more comfortable during and after treatment, and they can have problems tackled while preserving more of their healthy gum tissues. (more…)
Laser Periodontal Treatment May Help You Avoid Tooth Loss
The most significant advantages that come with laser periodontal treatment include making the process much more comfortable and precise. In addition to improving your overall experience, this is significant when it comes to preserving the rest of your healthy periodontal tissues and avoiding some of the more serious consequences of the disease. For many people, this includes the loss of one or more teeth, which can often occur when periodontal disease is allowed to progress, or has already affected a significant amount of periodontal tissues and jawbone structure. (more…)
Dealing with Gum Matters More than You May Realize
Though gum disease (also known as periodontal disease) can affect a majority of adults to some degree, it isn’t guaranteed to develop for anyone. In fact, proper care and maintenance can significantly improve your chances of preventing it from ever developing. When it does become a concern, however, dealing with gum disease properly and promptly is essential to maintaining your continued good oral health, and more. Using advanced laser technology and other minimally invasive treatment techniques, we can often help patients deal with their gum disease more comfortably, and with higher quality results. (more…)
Minimally Invasive Treatment for Periodontal Disease
The goal of treating any oral health concern isn’t just to address the problem at hand, but also to preserve the rest of your long-term oral and periodontal health. In the case of chronic concerns like periodontal disease, that largely requires the use of technology and expert techniques to ensure minimally invasive treatment for complex concerns. At our office, the use of various laser technologies helps us personalize minimally invasive periodontal treatment plans for patients who exhibit a wide range of periodontal health concerns. (more…)