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…)
Important Roles of Lasers in Your Periodontal Treatment
The more periodontal disease progresses, the more complex its consequences can become for your oral and periodontal health. This makes effective periodontal treatment a highly personalized process, and the use of advanced technology is often an important factor in keeping treatment minimally invasive. For example, at our office, the use of different, advanced laser technologies allows us to personalize and minimize periodontal treatment to an even greater extent. This provides several advantages for the success of your periodontal treatment, including more precise results for improved long-term periodontal health. (more…)
Why We Use Lasers When Performing Jawbone And Gum Grafts
There are several harmful consequences of periodontal disease, as this condition can lead to tissue damage, tooth loss, and problems that make your general health harder to manage. At our Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontal practice, we are prepared to help those patients who have seen unwelcome changes in their health and appearance because of poor periodontal health. If your goal is to restore your gum line or full smile, part of your care may include jawbone grafting and gum grafting procedures. We can help make these procedures easier for you by using laser technology. Lasers allow us to more carefully work with your soft tissues, and they can lead to shorter and more comfortable recoveries! (more…)
Using Lasers To Carefully Removed Diseased Gum Tissues
If problems with your periodontal health are identified in time, it may be possible to protect your smile through a periodontal cleaning. This procedure removes bacteria that are causing problems with gingivitis before periodontal disease can form. In this scenario, your infection can be reversed before you have to worry about potentially serious consequences with tooth loss, or issues with your general health. Unfortunately, many patients will not receive treatment in time for a cleaning to be sufficient. If you are someone who already has problems with periodontal disease, a more involved procedure can be necessary to help you. Our Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontal practice can make periodontal treatment easier for you because we are able to use lasers in procedures that directly affect your gums. The careful removal of diseased and damaged gums can encourage the growth of healthy tissues while minimizing damage to healthy areas. This approach can also lead to shorter recovery periods than treatments with manual tools! (more…)
3 Benefits To Using Lasers For A Periodontal Procedure
Periodontal disease can take a serious toll on your smile, and it can compromise your efforts to maintain your overall health. When patients show signs of infection, an effective treatment may involve work that manipulates or even removes gum tissues. At our Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontal practice, we can improve patient experiences in these situations because we rely on lasers when performing work on your tissues. Doing this can make the treatment itself easier, and it can lead to a faster and easier recovery! We use soft tissue lasers when directly dealing with infected tissues, and in treatments like gum grafting and jawbone grafting. (more…)
Lasers Can Make Periodontal Work More Precise
When periodontal disease begins to cause irreversible damage, the right treatment may involve the careful removal of tissues that show signs of infection. When manipulating or trimming these tissues, your Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontist uses lasers instead of manual tools. By choosing lasers over a scalpel, it is possible to provide a more precise treatment. What this means is that more of your healthy tissues are left alone during a procedure. It can also help lead to a shorter treatment period! We rely on lasers when performing a range of services that help patients restore their periodontal health, as well as treatments to restore gums and jawbone density through grafting. (more…)
What To Expect After Periodontal Treatment With Lasers
When you visit your periodontist with concerns about your gums, you can learn about the different treatment options available to help you. At our Encinitas/San Diego, CA practice, we are prepared to help individuals who are concerned about the potentially severe consequences of periodontal disease. In order to provide a better treatment experience for our patients, we rely on lasers when trimming or removing periodontal tissues. During your procedure, this can help you remain more comfortable while helping us preserve more of your healthy tissues. After your work is completed, you can be happy to hear that our work with lasers can produce visible results sooner, and also require a shorter healing period. (more…)
Lasers Can Improve Your Experience With Gum Grafting
While the gradual recession of a patient’s gum line can occur because of periodontal disease, there are other factors can cause this to occur. This problem can change the way you look when you smile, make you more likely to experience dental sensitivity, and it can make gum disease more likely if it has not already developed. Our Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontal practice relies on a treatment known as the Pinhole Surgical Technique to restore a patient’s gum line. This process minimizes the work required to move your gum line back into proper position, and it can lead to an easier healing experience. We can further improve your comfort during this work by using lasers whenever it is necessary to remove periodontal tissues. (more…)
Laser Treatment Can Help Restore Your Periodontal Health
Should you be more concerned about your periodontal health? If you have struggled with gum disease in the past, or if you have been warned by your dentist about the current condition of your gums, you should be alarmed. If nothing is done, an infection can lead to tissue damage that can cause tooth loss. It is also possible for the bacteria attacking your gums to travel and affect your general health. Our Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontist can provide modern treatments with lasers to help patients recover. With these services, we can restore healthy tissues while also lowering your risk for future complications. (more…)