Doctor Alex Martin Talks about Gum Disease Treatment
When treating gum disease, a lot of it comes down to home care, but in order for your home care to work, we got to clear up the underlying issues first off, and that’s by coming in and getting your teeth cleaned. Your gum disease is starting to progress, we have to go in deeper. You know, sometimes we’ll get you numb for your cleanings.
Get in there, do half your mouth at a time, kind of clear up the whole situation that way with traditional cleaning methods. And after that’s kind of taken care of, then we’ll go back through with the laser and make sure that those pockets around your teeth are clean. There’s nothing left living in there that’s going to cause you more damage.
After that, we try to bring you back in a more frequent basis, you know, a month later, make sure things are healing up right. Check them again. If things are looking great, then we’ll move on to our three-month cleanings at that point to try to keep them on that schedule until we see the gums have tightened up and gotten nice and pink again, rather than some of the red and purple and different colors that gums can get when they are diseased.