If you receive unhappy news about your periodontal health from your general dentist, you can understand the threat of gum disease, but not the options that are still available to you. With a second opinion appointment at our Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontal practice, you can receive detailed information about your periodontal health and learn what treatment options are worth exploring. Our practice relies on diagnostic imaging technology that lets us closely study the current condition of your gums. With this detailed images, we can determine if there is still time to prevent periodontal disease through services like scaling and root planing, or if we should discuss other services to help control your condition and protect your gums. (more…)
Planning Dental Implant Placement With Your Periodontist
If you have issues with periodontal disease, you can be vulnerable to tooth loss. Many people will experience issues with an infection that result in teeth becoming loose, which can lead to their loss or the need for extraction. At our Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontal practice, we can help those individuals who have already gone through this before beginning treatment to address their problem. One thing we can do for patients is provide dental implants, which their dentist can restore with a durable, lifelike prosthetic. The implant is set into your jawbone, where it will provide enough stability to let you bite and chew with your restoration. In addition to this, we can discuss services to fight bacteria and encourage the growth of healthy tissues to help you with your infection. (more…)
Sedation Can Make Periodontal Care More Comfortable
For some people, anxiety about oral health care can make important treatments harder to schedule. This can lead to serious trouble, as an active dental or periodontal problem can grow worse before they go in for treatment, leading to new complications. Our Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontal practice understands that anxiety is a real issue for many, and that even preventive periodontal services can feel intimidating if this problem affects you. One thing we can do to make the experience easier is to offer sedation before a periodontal treatment. With dental sedation, we can help you stay calm and comfortable as you go through treatments to fight periodontal disease. (more…)
Can My Periodontist Restore My Receding Gum Line?
Several unwelcome developments can occur after you develop a problem with periodontal disease. One of those issues is gum line recession, a change in the position of your gums that can hurt your smile and lead to difficult issues with dental sensitivity. In addition to helping you control or prevent problems with periodontal disease, our Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontal practice can provide a service to restore your gum line. Because we rely on the Pinhole Surgical Technique for gum grafting, we can provide care while limiting the work done to your tissues. This means you can see results sooner, and enjoy a faster and easier recovery! (more…)
The Relationship Between Periodontal Health And Diabetes
November is Diabetes Awareness Month, a time to look at both how people can prevent this disease, and how those who have it can make sure it is effectively managed. Both Type I and Type II Diabetes interfere with your ability to process sugar and use it for fuel. One thing you might not be aware of is how the effects of diabetes can raise your risk for other problems, including periodontal disease. The difficulty you have when it comes to managing your blood sugar can make the prevention of gum disease harder, which can eventually cause new oral and general health issues, and will raise your risk for tooth loss. Our Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontal practice is here to help people manage existing problems with their periodontal health, and we can also provide preventive services to keep you safe against this threat. (more…)
What We Do To Make Our Office Environment Safe For Patients
As we all continue to take precautions against the coronavirus, it is important to know what steps are being taken to make environments safe. At our Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontal practice, we have always been committed to sustaining safe and sterile treatment environments so that we can safely care for our patients. In response to the threat of coronavirus, we have updated our in-office practices to offer important additional protections. That has meant revising our scheduling and patient greeting practices, but it has also meant implementing technology that better protects everyone against possible contaminants. Access to periodontal care can be particularly important for those who are affected by periodontal disease. If this condition is not being managed properly, it can lead to more problems with tissue damage, tooth loss, and negative changes in your overall well-being! (more…)
Avoid Periodontal Disease By Scheduling A Deep Cleaning
In the course of your daily oral hygiene routine, you should thoroughly clean your teeth at your gum line. By doing so, you fight the accumulated bacteria that put you at risk for developing gingivitis. When plaque and tartar deposits form at the base of our teeth, we become susceptible to infection when bacteria start to gather on teeth roots. Fortunately, a periodontal deep cleaning can remove these harmful materials and stop gingivitis before it worsens. Our Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontal practice is prepared to provide this service for patients who start to worry about gingivitis. We can also provide Supportive Periodontal Maintenance cleanings for patients who are trying to control the effects of periodontal disease. (more…)
Periodontal Disease Makes You Vulnerable To Tooth Loss
If a problem with gum disease is not caught and treated in time, the initial infection can worsen and become more difficult to treat properly. There are several consequences to the continued growth and spread of periodontal bacteria that should concern you, but one problem in particular to worry about is tooth loss! Complications from periodontal disease lead all other causes when it comes to adult tooth loss. At our Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontal practice, we can help you avoid this issue by providing advanced services to protect your gums. If tooth loss has already become a concern for you, we can discuss restoring your smile through implant dentistry as part of a larger plan to help you restore your oral health. (more…)
What Role Do Lasers Play In Fighting Periodontal Disease?
If your problems with gum disease have grown serious, it may be hard for you to fully protect yourself against the consequences of your infection. In time, the bacteria that have gathered below your gums will begin to destroy the tissues that are holding your teeth in place. They can also create problems for your well-being in other areas as they continue to spread. Fortunately, a patient with periodontal disease can receive support at our Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontal practice! One reason for this is that we can use laser tools to target problems with periodontal bacteria and infected tissues that are creating trouble for you. Lasers make the treatments recommended for patients with infections less involved, and also require shorter and easier healing periods! (more…)
The Benefits Of Managing Problems With Gum Disease
If you fail to recognize the threat that gum disease poses, you can fail to see the value in seeing a periodontist about your infection. When gingivitis is not addressed in time and a person develops periodontal disease, they become vulnerable to tooth loss, they can see their smile change because of gum line recession, and they face risks of complications that will hurt their general health. At our Encinitas/San Diego, CA periodontal practice, we are ready to help you fight to preserve the health of your gums. If preventive periodontal care is still an option, we can perform a scaling and root planing to stop an advanced infection from forming. For patients who already have complications that need to be tended to, we can discuss different services that can control an advanced infection. (more…)