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Our highly experienced clinicians in Truro Cornwall will carry out this specialist periodontal clean using the gold standard minimally invasive AIRFLOW technology for your comfort and fine ultrasonic scalers to thoroughly deep clean around the teeth and below the gumline effectively removing all plaque biofilm, hard tartar and stain in areas where your toothbrush can't reach. This is followed by a strict oral hygiene regime and maintenance appointments to ensure gum disease is kept at bay.
Before your treatment, a detailed chart is taken, including - pocket depths, bleeding, recession, and mobility, to assess the severity of your gum disease.
* These prices are a guideline only and will vary from patient to patient depending on the severity of gum disease.
Our hygienists carry out routine oral health assessments of patient’s teeth and gums on every appointment. They may realise a presence of periodontal gum disease in your mouth to which their duty of care will be to explain how gum disease occurs and what treatment options we recommend to treat the condition. We will advise how you can help to improve your periodontal condition, starting with a tailored oral hygiene regime.
This will include:
Our highly experienced Truro hygienist team will use the very best equipment and technology to ensure your comfort and guided biofilm therapy enables us to directly target our cleaning. The use of numbing gel followed by local anaesthetic may be required in areas that are more sensitive and sore due to swollen gums. The hygienist will thoroughly deep clean and remove calculus build up around and below the gum line when the patient is comfortable and ready to proceed.
Once the prescribed treatment plan is complete we leave patients for 2-3 months to allow the gums to heal, this is when your home teeth cleaning needs to be at its best to ensure gum health results improve.
We recommend a follow up review appointment so we can re-chart your periodontal pockets, and bleeding scores to monitor your bodies healing response from the prescribed deep clean treatment.
This ‘review appointment’ costs £60 - £80 depending on the severity of the patient's gum disease. During this appointment the hygienist will clean around the teeth, gum line and pockets promoting the health of your gums whilst re-enforcing your oral hygiene regime to ensure plaque levels are low. With regular maintenance, this will ensure the gums will continue to improve over time.
For long term stabilisation of the gums we advise regular supportive maintenance cleans. This is important to prevent future plaque and tartar build up and allow you to manage and live with optimal oral health with ease.
It refers to an infection of the tissue that surrounds and holds your teeth in place. There are two distinct stages to periodontal disease: The first stage, gingivitis, involves swelling and reddening of the gum tissue. The second, periodontitis, can mean the gums actually pulling away from teeth, bones deteriorating, and teeth loosening and potentially falling out.
The simplest explanation for what causes periodontal disease is plaque bacteria. The plaque that builds up daily eventually hardens into tartar (calculus) if not brushed away. This tartar spreads and overtime it builds up below the gum line causing a gum disease. Inflammation, bleeding, bad breath and soreness will set in and if left untreated will cause damage to the gums and supporting bone holding the teeth in position.
While bacteria is the main culprit behind periodontal disease, there are a number of lifestyle or behaviour factors that can increase the persons chances of it developing and progressing. Some of the leading risk factors are:
Some of the most common and obvious signs of periodontal disease include:
Once a dentist or hygienist has diagnosed the periodontal disease from their initial oral health assessment they can provide some dental options to help improve and resolve the issues. Patients should keep in mind that the success of any treatment option is going to depend on their willingness to keep up good oral hygiene habits at home. That said, the early stage of periodontal disease — gingivitis — can be treated with regular cleanings from your hygienist in concert with daily brushing and flossing. More advanced periodontal disease might require further treatment options, such as deep-cleaning of the teeth roots below the gum surface or referral to a periodontal specialist.
For more information or if you are worried about Gum Disease please call us on 01872 859948
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