Here at Kelowna, we offer different surgical and cosmetic dentistry treatments suitable for any case of gum disease. Some of them are the following:
Bone Surgery – If you are diagnosed with periodontitis, you are more likely to experience progressive or moderate bone loss, which may cause shallow craters. Our professionals perform bone surgery to smooth out shallow craters you have. This cosmetic surgery is designed to reshape the bone surrounding your tooth, thus reducing the crater’s depth. A bone surgery will also prevent the growth and buildup of plaque-causing bacteria.
Guided Tissue Regeneration – We perform this scaling surgery when the bone surrounding and supporting your teeth has been highly damage and causes pain. A guided tissue regeneration surgery stimulates the gum tissue and bone growth.
We usually do this with flap surgery, where we will insert a mesh-like fabric between the gum tissue and bone. Therefore, the gum tissue will grow according to where it should be. This gum disease treatment allows the connective gum tissue and bone to grow, giving you better oral health.
Soft Tissue Grafts – We perform these procedures in patients with gum recession. This periodontal therapy includes reinforcing thin gums, mostly taken from the mouth roof. The purpose of this periodontal surgery is to add and bridges tissue to the damaged site.
Bone Grafts – If your gum disease is so severe that it destroys the bone around your teeth crowns, our orthodontics professionals may recommend you go through bone grafts surgery. This treatment involves using donated bone, synthetic bone, or your bone fragments to restore your damaged bone.
The grafts are a framework for bone regrowth, designed to provide better teeth stability. We use tissue engineering, the latest dental technology promoting your mouth to generate new tissue and bone.
Pocket Reduction Surgery or Flap Surgery – This gum or jaw disease treatment involves tartar removal and lifting of gums to heal the gum problem. Our dental professionals do this in irregular sites of the damaged bone to target areas where bacteria can hide.
This surgery is designed to minimize the space between the tooth and gum. Therefore, it reduces the sites where disease-causing bacteria can grow. This also reduces the possible chance of developing severe oral problems related to periodontal disease.
Unfortunately the stickier the food, the more damage it can cause. If you are a person who drinks a lot of sugary drinks and crunches on candy
it is a good idea to go for a clean scale every six months to safeguard your teeth. When you clean your teeth it is also important to floss them as this removes any trapped particles that will decay if left there.
There was a time when most older people had false teeth, and they took them out at night and put them in a glass. That is a horrible thought to younger people and it doesn’t happen anymore because we all care for our teeth a lot better and the fluoride in most water supplies is protective to tooth enamel.