Did you know that periodontal disease not only causes issues with your oral health, but also your appearance? Gum recession to tooth loss, a lack of treatment could allow periodontal disease to hurt your smile. In today’s blog, your Brooklyn, NY, periodontist and dental implant expert talks about how we protect your smile’s appearance with periodontic care.
The Link Between Periodontal Disease and Tooth Loss
When you have periodontal disease, the lack of treatment could lead to issues with red gums and persistent bleeding when you brush and floss. Without treatment, this could cause the tissues to begin receding, which makes teeth appear long or possibly uneven. Over time, attachment loss could occur as the disease reaches the periodontitis stage, which causes loose and missing teeth. In fact, this is the number one cause of adult tooth loss! But with periodontic care, our team can provide care to manage periodontal disease and protect your smile.
Diagnosing Your Issue
To conduct a diagnosis and see what we need to do to protect your smile’s health and appearance, we will carefully examine your teeth and gums with digital x-rays and intraoral cameras, so we can see the surfaces of your gums and also look at underlying bone structure and attachment tissues. Once we have assessed the state of your smile, we can create a treatment plan that involves helping both the health and beauty of your smile.
Treatment with Lasers and More
For early stages, we could manage the issue with a deep cleaning, also known as a scaling and root planing, to remove harmful buildup and make the disease manageable with traditional cleaning every few months. For more advanced stages, we could employ dental lasers to trim away diseased tissues and reshape the gum line, destroying pockets of bacteria in the process. If you have receding gums, we could offer a gum graft to cover these portions and again correct the gum line, so you have a more attractive appearance. If the disease has caused tooth loss, then we can use implant dentistry to address minor to severe tooth loss once we have managed the disease, so you have a full smile that looks and functions like a natural one.
If you have any questions about how we treat tooth loss, or about boosting smile beauty by treating and managing your periodontal disease, then contact our team today to learn more! We want to help ensure your smile stays full, healthy, and beautiful for years to come.
Brooklyn Periodontics Offers Better Gum Health
We want to help protect the health and stability of your smile with periodontic treatment. For more details about improving smile beauty, then please call Brooklyn Periodontics & Implantology in Brooklyn, NY at (718) 444-3800 today.
