Cosmetic gum recontouring is going to improve the size or shape of a patient’s smile, make it look more proportioned, where gum treatments in general are more about health and well-being. There’s an infection, they’re deteriorating their bone that holds their teeth in, gums are moving or receding, and everything we know about medicine and research today ties the health of their gums to numerous other health concerns along the lines of heart disease, diabetes, even Alzheimer’s, different types of cancers. There’s numerous studies to link that to those.
Deep cleaning completely devalues what’s being done. It’s thorough gum treatment, it’s antibiotic therapy. Deep cleaning, unfortunately, because I’ve retreated too many patients over the years, doesn’t create the value for staying on top of it, because gum treatments are only good if once done, they’re followed up with consistently, like in a three to four month regimen, to make sure it doesn’t come back, because gum disease will always come back if it’s treated and left to not kept up with, and so that’s the biggest thing I see in too many offices, I think, talk about it that way, and therefore patients don’t have a sense of urgency to keep up with it.
Whether senior patients or any adults or even children, gum disease doesn’t know any age, and so it can affect anybody, but yes, as we get older, we don’t fight disease off as well or bacteria or infections off as well, so therefore it can take hold a lot quicker and do more damage more quickly. So yeah, I think the big question is always how important is it that they keep whatever teeth they have left, and if that’s an important thing, then that’s the way to address it, is to treat the gums, and then depending on other health concerns they may be taking medicines for, you know, could we make that better? Could we help the medicines work better? Could we help and maybe even minimize the medicines they’re on? Gum health is a framework for anybody’s smile, whether they’ve had cosmetic work done or not, healthy gums are what’s going to be, make that smile look brighter and more vibrant, whether it be just improving size and shape of teeth, but again, create a framework. We’ve certainly had cosmetic dentistry, it’s going to create the framework to make that look even better.
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