How Preventive Services Safeguard Your Gums

Our team wants to help you avoid the onset of periodontal disease, and if you have received treatment with laser dentistry, we can offer services to help manage the disease and protect your smile. In today’s blog, your Encinitas/San Diego, CA, periodontist talks about our preventive services, which can help you enjoy good oral health and an attractive smile.

The Scaling and Root Planing

When you have sore, red, and bleeding gums, this could indicate the presence of periodontal disease and you want treatment to help you avoid the onset periodontitis, the stage of the disease linked to tooth loss. But we can help with a deep cleaning, a preventive measure that allows us to reverse inflammation and manage the disease to keep your smile whole. The process involves using an ultrasonic scaling device and a manual tool to remove the buildup from the surfaces of the teeth and the exposed portions of the roots, and even from beneath the gums. The procedure could take one visit or as many as four depending the extent of your buildup. Our team will keep you comfortable with local anesthesia too.

Supportive Periodontal Maintenance

Our team could also help prevent the disease or manage the issue with Supportive Periodontal Maintenance. This takes the place of a traditional cleaning and is conducted every three to four months to consistently remove harmful plaque and tartar buildup from the surfaces of your teeth. With this procedure, we can help manage your gum health so you avoid discomfort, redness, recession, and tooth loss. This can also prevent further attachment loss in your smile.

Ozone Therapy

With Ozone Therapy, we can help prevent periodontal issues by sterilizing and destroying harmful oral bacteria that cause the disease. We expose your smile to ozone in a gas or liquid form, and while this destroys harmful bacteria, it leaves the healthy ones in place to ensure a healthy and balanced biome in your smile. This can be used to prevent gingivitis and gum disease, or aid in managing gum disease following laser treatment. This is a simple and holistic approach to protecting your oral health.

If you have any questions about how we approach prevention, or if you have changes in your gums that need attention, then please reach out to our team today. We look forward to helping you enjoy a healthy and beautiful smile for years to come.

Talk to Dr. Kania About Our Preventive Services

Following treatment, we want to help manage your smile’s health and stability with our holistic and preventive treatment options! To learn more about our preventive treatment options, or to schedule your appointment, give us a call at our office in Encinitas, CA today at 760-642-0711.