We want to help patients enjoy good gum health and full smiles. Which is why we offer a comprehensive number of holistic and preventive treatments, to help people avoid periodontal disease or to properly manage it to keep smiles whole. In today’s blog, your Encinitas/San Diego, CA, periodontist talks about helping smiles with holistic treatments. These can be done to help prevent the onset of the disease, or could be used following treatment to help your smile recover faster and to ensure better control inflammation and other factors that threaten your oral health!
Controlling Plaque and Tartar
When you see us and we find serious buildup, we can use a scaling and root planing to gently but thoroughly remove all plaque and tartar from the teeth, roots, and under the gums. This helps make the disease manageable moving forward. We can then follow it with traditional cleanings every three of four months to keep the harmful buildup in check.
Medications and Therapies
Our team could also offer antimicrobial treatments, medications that help destroy harmful disease-causing bacteria to help control inflammation. We can administer these though topical or systemic methods. Our team could also discuss Ozone Therapy, in which we use oxygen to help destroy harmful bacteria while keeping healthy bacteria intact, protecting your smile’s biome.
Healing Your Smile
To help promote healing in your smile, our team could offer treatments that encourage growth in the attachment tissues and gums. These can help grow gum tissue and repair ligaments, tendons, and other muscle tissue and joints to help your smile recover from both periodontic treatments and even procedures like dental implant placement.
Changes to Your Routine
Our team could recommend changes to your daily routine to help protect your smile, such as cutting back on sugar and starch and eating more leafy greens, fruits, whole grain breads, dairy products, and other options high in Vitamins like C and D. You should avoid tobacco use completely, and consider adding foods like fish, which have Omega-3 fatty acids.
If you have any questions about how we help safeguard your gum health with our preventive and holistic treatments, or if you have sore, red, and bleeding gums that need attention, then please reach out to our team today to learn more. We want to help you enjoy good gum health and a full smile for years to come, and that starts with your initial visit for an exam!
Schedule a Visit for Cleaner Teeth
We have an array of holistic treatments to help prevent and/or manage issues like periodontal disease. We want you to enjoy an attractive and full smile, one free of inflammation and disease! When you are ready to schedule an appointment, call Dr. Ann Kania in San Diego, CA, at 760-642-0711.