If you are not trying to keep problems with periodontal disease under control, you can find yourself dealing with tooth loss. You can also experience more difficulties controlling problems with your general health, including potential issues with your heart! Our Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontal practice provides different treatment solutions for patients who are affected by a potentially serious infection. One option takes a holistic approach by using concentrated oxygen to fight bacteria. Through ozone therapy, we can destroy harmful microbes while preserving your mouth’s natural ecosystem! (more…)
Assisting Patients Uneasy About Periodontal Care
Periodontal disease should not be taken lightly. If you are not meeting with a professional to have your condition evaluated and treated, it can cause you to experience issues with tooth loss, and it can make it more difficult for you to manage your general health. Our Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontal practice is here to support you if you need to do something about a potentially serious infection. With the right services, we can help you control or reverse the problem. If your interest in treatment is complicated by your anxieties around dental work, you should know that we can take several steps to make sure your care is as comfortable as possible. (more…)
How Lasers Affect Gum Grafting Treatment
If your gums look as though they are receding, or if recession of these tissues is something that your dentist has warned you about, you can have an interest in treatment options. As you look into the benefits of undergoing a procedure to restore your gum line, you can find that some approaches sound more invasive and uncomfortable than others. At our Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontal practice, we can give you a better experience because we use laser technology to provide treatment via the Pinhole Surgical Technique. A pinhole gum grafting treatment minimizes tissue damage and removes the need for suturing and surgical cuts! (more…)
PRP Therapy And Gum Disease
Problems with gum disease can grow more serious in time. An infection that is not addressed in time can start to do alarming damage to your periodontal tissues and ligaments that support teeth. In time, this can lead to tooth loss! At our Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontal practice, we provide many different services to help people with different degrees of periodontal disease. If you are someone who is trying to recover from tissue damage, we can discuss the advantages of platelet rich plasma therapy, or PRP therapy. This treatment encourages faster recovery through the use of platelets, which your body relies on as part of the natural recovery process. (more…)
Preventive Care Through Periodontal Cleanings
When it is not being managed, a periodontal infection can have serious consequences that affect more than just your smile. Fortunately, there are services that help control the spread of bacteria as well as potential attachment loss that make your teeth vulnerable to being lost. At our Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontal office, we can recommend different preventive services to help maintain the health of your gums. Depending on the severity of your current infection, we can provide a scaling and root planing or recommend the start of Supportive Periodontal Maintenance. If necessary, we can also discuss treatments that will help address harm already done by a serious infection. (more…)
The Impact Of Periodontal Disease
When your problems with gum disease become too serious to be properly managed at a general dental office, you can find that you need the services of someone who specializes in periodontal care. If it surprises you that poor gum health can call for a specialist, you may not realize just how serious an infection can become. Did you know that periodontal disease is the leading cause of tooth loss, or that it can interfere with your management of other health conditions? At our Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontal office, we can evaluate you to determine just how serious your condition is, help you understand your treatment options, and make plans to fight the problem to preserve your oral and general health. (more…)
Perio Protect And Daily Preventive Care
The daily routine you practice to protect your smile should keep you safe against both dental and periodontal problems. For those who have a history of trouble with gingivitis, or ongoing difficulties managing periodontal disease, a “standard” routine may not feel like enough. With Perio Protect, you can directly target harmful microbes as part of your standard regimen. At our Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontal practice, we can recommend this treatment for patients with different concerns. When appropriate, we also provide important in-office services that we can arrange in order to help you protect your gums. (more…)
How Gum Line Recession Hurts Your Smile
If you do not respond to the early signs of gum disease, your infection can cause more trouble than you may expect. There are some serious consequences, including tooth loss and difficulty managing your general health, that you should know about. While gum line recession is less serious than these issues, it can have a serious impact on your appearance, and it makes you more vulnerable to future problems. Our Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontal practice is here to help those who struggle with this issue. Because we have access to laser technology, we can provide a less invasive gum grafting procedure, one that does not require sutures and offers a shorter recovery period! (more…)
Performing Work To Restore Your Full Smile
Periodontal problems can affect your well-being in several worrying ways, and they can also have a big impact on your smile. One serious concern is that you will lose teeth due to tissue damage from your infection. If this occurs, your Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontist can help. We work with patients with incomplete smiles by providing dental implants that will permanently support prosthetic restorations. We can also help you manage an active infection to prepare you for the work to replace teeth that you have lost. Some patients will need preparatory work to prepare for a successful implant placement, something that we can also provide at our office. (more…)
Is It Gingivitis Or Periodontal Disease?
You may have a tendency to use the terms “gingivitis” and “gum disease” interchangeably, and assume there is no difference to worry over. What you should know is that while gingivitis is an early stage of an infection that is still reversible, gum disease, also referred to as periodontal disease, can refer to a more severe infection that is more difficult to manage. At our Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontal practice, we can provide evaluations to help patients understand what they are dealing with, which can then help us determine how to best help them. If preventive care is no longer an effective means of restoring your gum health, we can review more involved procedures that can help you. (more…)