Periodontal disease could lead to discomfort in your daily life, including bleeding and sore gums. But did you know that this could lead to loose and missing teeth too? In today’s blog, your team at Brooklyn Periodontics and Implantology talks about preventing periodontal disease from destabilizing your smile.
How Periodontal Disease Destabilizes Your Smile
How does periodontal disease destabilize your smile? Over time, what starts as gum inflammation (gingivitis) could lead to periodontal disease. But without care, this progression continues until you reach a stage known as periodontitis. At this stage, the disuse begins to destroy the connective tissues between the teeth and gums, which leads to loose and missing teeth. You then begin to lose teeth. The lack of tooth roots means the jawbone itself weakens a well, which furthers the risk of additional missing teeth and an older appearance. But with periodontic treatment, we can help prevent periodontal disease from destabilizing your smile!
Starting Periodontic Treatment
When you have sore, red, and bleeding gums, then please see our team right away. We will conduct a diagnosis with digital imaging, so we can understand the value and assess the severity of the disease, looking at your gums as well as underlying connective tissues and jawbone structures. From there, we create a treatment plan to address the issue. If you have already lost teeth, we could discuss implant dentistry to help address minor or even total tooth loss. If your jawbone has weakened due to periodontal disease and missing teeth, we could strengthen it with support services like jawbone grafting and a sinus lift, so you can support one or more dental implants.
Laser Dentistry and More
Our treatment options include advanced technology. With a soft tissue laser, we can gently and comfortably remove excess tissues and reshape the gum with precision and accuracy. In the process, this destroys harmful oral bacteria and helps lower the risk of swelling, bleeding, and infection. The process rarely requires anesthesia and takes one sitting to complete. You see immediate results and can return to your normal routine in as little as a day or two. No need for scalpels or sutures at all! With Platelet Rich Plasma, we can inject a special autoplasm to help the treated area heal even quicker.
If you have any questions about how we prevent gum disease from destabilizing your smile, or about how we handle missing teeth with dental implants, then contact our team today to learn more and use your dental benefits before they expire at the end of December!
Brooklyn Periodontics Offers Periodontic Services
We want to help protect your smile from major complications, including tooth loss. For more information about periodontic treatment, then please call Brooklyn Periodontics & Implantology in Brooklyn, NY at (718) 444-3800 today.
