Periodontal cleaning

Your gums are certainly the unsung heroes of your dental health, providing support and protection to your teeth. Here at Goldfields Family Dental, our professional periodontal care is available to help you retain your strength and health.

Periodontal Care: What Is It?

Periodontal treatment is designed primarily to maintain your gums and the tissues surrounding and supporting your teeth. This is a personalized approach to preventing and managing gum disease and ensuring the longevity of health in your smile, which goes well beyond a standard cleaning.

Importance of Periodontal Care

Periodontal disease, also known as gum disease. It is often painless early on, but it can progress in such a way that it silently causes the following to occur:

Long-standing bad breath
Movement and change in the position of the teeth
In extreme cases, the teeth will begin to fall out
There is an increased chance of developing gingivitis and periodontitis with bleeding gums

However, these can be prevented by receiving regular periodontal care and maintaining your gum health.

What Is Involved in Periodontal Care?

Removal of Tartar and Plaque: A thorough cleaning is necessary for the removal of accumulations that are too high and too low to be accessed by normal brushing and flossing.

Scaling: Takes tartar and plaque out of deep pockets along the gums.

Root planing: In this process, the roots of your teeth are smoothened to remove calculus deposits.

Antibiotic therapy: It is the administration of oral drugs or antibacterial gels to treat infection and facilitate healing.

Pocket Depth Assessment: This process encloses measuring the depth of the space that has been formed between your teeth and gums and serves as tracking of the progression of gum disease.

Maintenance Appointments: Besides regular checks every three to four months, you can check your gums’ state of health and, hence, your treatment’s effectiveness

Stages of Periodontal Disease
Benefits of Dental Care

As we understand how and in what ways our gums can be affected this helps us form decisions on the need for care:

Early-stage gingivitis is characterized by swollen, red gums that bleed easily, which is often cured with the appropriate treatment.
Periodontitis with deep pockets, gum recession, and finally bone loss if left untreated makes it necessary to go through multiple care sessions.

Tooth Loss Prevention
Overall Health Improvement as gum diseases are closely related to other common diseases such as diabetes, Heart disease, and stroke whereby the bacteria involved invade other parts of the body.
Freshens Breath
Treats the inflammation and discoloration of gums

How Does Regular Cleaning Differ from Periodontal Care?

Regular cleaning is a preventive measure of primary importance while periodontitis comes after the destruction of the mouths hard and soft tissues (gums and bone).

Plaque is deposited on a tooth and cleaning at and under the gum line deals with the bacteria and helps prevent further bone and gum loss.

The Dental Difference at Goldfields Family

At Goldfields Family Dental, we are indeed deeply dedicated to the prevention of gum disease however if a patient does present with gum disease, we are highly qualified to treat them. Our periodontal treatment options are tailored to your individual needs to ensure that you feel cared for and comfortable at all times.

What we do for your gum health:

Precise diagnosing with advanced imaging technology
Effective treatments with minimum inconvenience.
Instructions given to you so that your dental health is in the best condition possible.

So, you can be sure your gums are all taken care of when you reach out to us!