When you develop periodontal disease, this can lead to sore and bleeding gums, and even impact the stability of your smile. There is often underlying damage to bone and supportive tissues. But your Brooklyn, NY, periodontist and implant expert can offer healing with advanced treatment options to heal the damaged portions of ligaments, bone, tendons, and gum tissues!
How Gum Disease Harms Your Smile
Periodontal disease will continue to grow in severity unless managed with treatment and regular maintenance afterward. For example, our team can employ laser dentistry to remove diseased portions and improve the gum line, while routine cleanings every three to four months can continue to manage it by controlling harmful plaque and tartar buildup. But over time, the disease can weaken and destroy underlying bone structure and connective tissues, which is why the advanced stage, known as periodontitis, is linked to adult tooth loss. But once we manage the disease, we need to repair the underlying damage!
Treating the Disease
As we touched on above, our team will choose treatment to take on your inflammation or periodontal disease. For example, we have advanced laser systems that allow us to gently and comfortably remove tissues from the smile and allow healthy ones to reattach to the teeth, so the disease is managed moving forward with a preventive approach, keeping your smile whole. Once we have accomplished this, we can also provide unique treatments to repair the underlying damage to the gums, connective tissues, and bone.
Repairing Damage
When you have damagee structures due to periodontal disease, our team can inject a unique autoplasm known as Platelet Rich Plasma. The autoplasm then helps facilitate healing and growth in ligaments, tendons, gum tissues, and even for the jaw structure. Not only does this help repair damage from gum disease, but this can also help the areas where dental implants have been placed to heal much quicker too. This helps reduce the risk of implant failure and tooth loss!
If you have any questions about how our team can facilitate healing in your smile with the Platelet Rich Plasma system, or if you have missing teeth you want to see replaced with our durable and lifelike dental implants, then contact our team today to learn more.
Manage Your Smile with Your Brooklyn, NY, Periodontist
Our team wants to help you protect and preserve your smile, which is why in addition to treatments designed to address gum disease and replace missing teeth, we also have unique options to facilitate healing in your jaw, so you can smile with confidence for years to come. To schedule an appointment and start your care, contact your Brooklyn, NY, periodontist by calling (718) 444-3800.
