Periodontal Consultation
Your first step toward greater oral health.
When you’re referred to Midtown Periodontics from a dental office, we seek first to understand your dental health issue.
So, we invite you into our office where we’ll discuss your lifestyle, medical history and dental hygiene. After this conversation, we’ll inspect your teeth, gums, neck, jaw joints, throat and entire mouth—which can include X-rays.
Once we’ve gathered all the data, we can diagnose your oral health condition and offer effective treatment options.
Non-surgical Therapy
If we catch issues early enough, we can often combat problems with less invasive methods through non-surgical therapy. This is also why we, as dentists and periodontists, recommend routine visits.
Scaling and Root Planing
While regular teeth cleaning is great for your oral health, it won’t clean beyond your gumline. With scaling and root planing, we deep-clean your mouth, eliminating plaque, bacteria and calculus (tartar) from periodontal pockets and removing bacterial toxins for a healthier mouth.
This simple procedure often allows gums to reattach to teeth, reducing the depth of periodontal pockets and making it easier for you to keep your teeth clean.
Localized Medications
In some cases, we may administer antibacterial medication below the gum line to complement scaling and root planing. This will help to kill off any surviving bacteria.
Systemic Antimicrobials
For some forms of periodontitis, we may recommend a round of oral antibiotics after scaling and root planing. This will further reduce the bacteria around the root of the tooth.
Maintenance Therapy
The long term success of any form of periodontal treatment is dependent on consistent ongoing maintenance and prescribed intervals. There is evidence from studies that suggest dental scaling every 3 months greatly improves long term outcomes following all types of periodontal treatments
Scaling and Root Planing
While regular teeth cleaning is great for your oral health, it won’t clean beyond your gumline. With scaling and root planing, we deep-clean your mouth, eliminating plaque, bacteria and calculus (tartar) from periodontal pockets and removing bacterial toxins for a healthier mouth.
Surgical Periodontics
Surgery serves one of 3 purpose:
- To repair.
- To regenerate.
- To replace.
The periodontists at Midtown Edmonton Periodontics practice the full scope of periodontal surgery procedures and will be able to provide you with the appropriate care to achieve your health and esthetic goals. Our surgeries include gum and bone grafting as well as placement of dental implants.
Gingival Flap Surgery
For the deepest clean possible, we carefully separate the gums from the teeth, then gently clean the roots. After cleaning, gums are fully stitched back into place. In some cases, bone reshaping may be required during this procedure.
Gingivectomy
We remove excess gum tissue to make your teeth easier to clean and help to improve your smile.
Gingivoplasty
We reshape gum tissue for a more aesthetically-pleasing look. This procedure can also be combined with a gum graft.
Gum Graft
If gum tissue has receded around a tooth, we can repurpose tissue from another area of your mouth, then stitch it in place around the exposed tooth. This will help to even out the gum line and reduce sensitivity.
Gum Regeneration
In some cases, we encourage the regeneration of gums using bone grafts, membranes or tissue-stimulating proteins. To do this, we fold the gum tissue away from the tooth, cleanse, then apply the proteins, membrane or graft bone. Once the procedure is complete, the gum is stitched back into place to regenerate.