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Your periodontist will do a comprehensive exam in your first visit. Radiographs (x-rays) may be used to show home levels between your teeth to check for possible bone loss. It’s very important for your periodontist to know if you are taking any medication or being treated for any condition that can affect your periodontal care.

Periodontal surgery is necessary when your periodontist deermnies that the ittsue around your teeth is unhealthy and cannot be repaired with non-0surgical treatment , Surgical procedures remove the disease-causing bacteria and allow the gum tissue to better reattach to healthy bone. Four types of surgical treatments most commonly prescribed are:

• Pocket Reduction Procedures – The bacteria is removed and the tissue is repositioned back into place. In some cases, irregular surfaces of the damaged bone are smoothed to limit areas where disease-causing bacteria can hide.
• Regenerative Procedures – Membranes, bone grafts or tissue-stimulating proteins can be used to encourage your body’s natural ability to regenerate bone and tissue
• Crown Lengthening – Crown lengthening adjusts the gum and bone level to expose more of the tooth so it can be restored.
• Soft Tissue Grafts – Soft tissue grafts can be used to cover roots or develop gum tissue where absent due to excessive gingival recession.

Persistent swollen, red or bleeding gums, tooth sensitivity, and bad breath are warning signs or periodontal (gum) disease – a serious infection that, left untreated , can lead to tooth loss.

Jot down your answers to the following questions to find out if you have the symptoms of periodontal disease.

• Do you ever have pain in your mouth?
• Do your gums ever bleed when you brush your teeth or when you eat hard food?
• Have you noticed any spaces developing between your teeth?
• Do your gums ever feel swollen or tender?
• Have you noticed that your gums are receding (pulling back from your teeth or your teeth appear longer than before?
• Do you have persistent bad breath?
• Have you noticed pus between your teeth and gums?
• Have you noticed any change in the way your teeth fit together when you bite?
• Do you every develop sores in your mouth?

A tooth would require a root canal when there is radiographic and clinical evidence that the nerve is dead or dying. Omni Dental recommends a buildup and crown be performed within a month of completion of a root canal to avoid fracturing of the tooth and possible additional treatment.

By the time the average person has had a root canal, there are almost always other structurally compromising things going on with the tooth. After a root canal, your tooth loses moisture and can easily fracture. Without a crown, the tooth may fracture. Once the fracture is extensive and severe, an extraction will be required. Once extracted, the area is only restorable by a bridge, implant, removable appliance, or a combination of the three.

Implants serve as a foundation for replacement teeth. The teeth can be fixed (cemented or screwed in to place permanently) or removable i.e., detachable in the form of clips or snaps over the implant posts individually. Both options offer tremendous improvements and benefits over the typical conventional appliances that rest on the tissues alone.

The removable approach is usually less costly and is easier for the patient to maintain since the appliance can be removed and the patient has easier access for cleaning. The fixed approach is desirable in that it most closely resembles the feel, appearance, and stability of one’s own natural teeth. Both approaches afford the patients improved comfort, function, health, cosmetics and improved self-esteem and confidence.

Teeth can crack due to excessive stress during years of function, as a result of stress related nighttime clenching and grinding, trauma, a diet of hard foods, chewing ice cubes, chewing on a uncooked popcorn cornel. They can also crack when they have very large silver fillings that expand slightly into the areas of minimal structural support.

Whatever teeth you have that have cracks in them should be restored. The cracks act as a major access point for the acid by products of the bacteria we all have in our mouths and make decay a very easy process to develop. Certainly when the virgin teeth started to break down and intervention was warranted by fillings, these very same fillings have a limited life expectancy with an average filling lasting 5-7 years. Sometimes the fillings only last 2 years and sometimes it is 20 years and that is dependent on diet and oral hygiene.

Yes. Omni Dental Group offers various forms of sedation, much as oral sedation and nitrous oxide. Special arrangements can be made with an anesthesiologist if a patient requests deeper sedation. Check with a front desk associate for details.