Gum Disease

The most common, that causes the gum disease, is poor oral hygiene. Not brushing your teeth regularly and properly can cause plaque build up on your teeth. And that brings the gum disease to you.To have the regularly dental check up will help you to learn about your oral health. It will reduce the risks of getting gum disease.

Scaling and Root Planing Procedures

As you may know, once you have the plaque deposit on your teeth, it will start gum disease.   As long as the gum disease has not involved the structures below the gum line, basic scaling procedure is good enough to remove the dental plaque. But if there are pockets or bone lost, you will need Root Planing Procedure or any other surgical gum surgery to stop gum disease.The periodontist (gum specialist) usually give injection in the Root Planing Procedure. So, it is very important that you should get scaling and root planing done every 3 months by periodontist to keep your teeth and gum healthy.

Crown Lengthening

It is a surgical procedure performed by Periodontist (gum specialist). This procedure is used to expose a greater amount of tooth structure so the dentist can have enough height to work on. In other word, this surgery will increase crown ratio.

There are 2 theories for this procedure.

If it is only the removal of soft tissue, it can be performed by using Diode Laser. Waiting time before the final restoration is only a few days.

If we need to trim down the bone level, we have to do the open flap surgery. Waiting time before the final restoration is 2-3 months.