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Keep Your Gums Healthy and Free of Infection
Protect Your Teeth from Decay and Cavities

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Periodontal Therapy
Safe and Minimally Invasive Treatment
Experts agree that periodontal treatment should be as safe and minimally invasive as possible. Your dentist can assess the severity of your gum disease and plan a treatment that is best for your periodontal health. Depending on how far advanced your gum disease is, you might need a simple procedure like deep cleaning, or scaling and root planing, or medications that eliminate infections. If the disease is progressed too far for these methods, you and your dentist may choose periodontal surgery.
Deep Cleaning
After examining your gums, your dentist may suggest a deep-cleaning method known as scaling and root planing. The process may be repeated several times as your gums heal to fit more closely around your teeth. If you have advanced gum disease, your gums pull away from your teeth, creating pockets where bacteria can grow.
Scaling and Planing
After we scale away those mineral deposits, we plane the roots to make them smooth. This keeps food, minerals and bacteria from sticking to the surfaces of your teeth. At the same time, the two-fold process removes bacteria from the pockets. For some of our patients, one scaling and planing provides a great benefit and improves the gums sufficiently. However, many people require several treatments before their gums are back to normal.
Medications
We can use certain medications as an alternative to scaling and root planing or in conjunction with these procedures. Antibiotic strips can be placed inside the periodontal pockets after a deep cleaning. Or, your doctor might give you an oral antibioticor an injection of antibiotics. Another method many dentists use it to send you home with trays for your teethand topical medication you use in the trays to eliminate bacteria and promote healing.
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26 Wellington St E, Unit #110 Toronto, ON M5E 1S2
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