When people think of oral health, they typically think of their teeth. There is a lot of other parts helping support your health in your mouth though. One of those parts is your gums. The gums are integral in maintaining the health of your teeth, jaw, and overall digestion. That’s the reason why it’s important to tackle gum disease as soon as it is noticed. Here is some information on how to treat gum disease in Jacksonville Florida.
Is This Gum Disease?
The first step to treating gum disease is assessing whether you have gum disease or not. This can be done by a trained medical professional, but there are a few things to keep a lookout for. If you are noticing these symptoms and are worried, consider reaching out to a professional for some advice.
Common symptoms of gum disease are:
- Swollen or puffy gums
- Bright or dusky red gums
- Gums that are overly warm or tender to the touch
- Easily bleeding gums
- Pus between your teeth and gums
- Painful chewing
- New spaces forming between teeth or tooth loss
- Noticeably receding or growing gums
Whilst every case for gum disease is different depending on the person, these are some of the symptoms that many who visit us have.
Defeating Gum Disease:
After determining whether you have gum disease or not, the next step would be the treatment of potential gum disease. The great thing is there are multiple ways to treat gum disease today. Each form of treatment is curtailed to your specific case in order to help you best.
Scaling and root planing is one of the ways we treat gum disease today. This is a non-surgical way to treat gum disease and is typically the first go-to for treatment of gum disease. Scaling is the act of removing plaque buildup forming below the gum line to prevent inflammation and infection. Following this, root planing smooths the surface of the root to encourage healthy tissue to grow from and around the tooth.
For more aggressive gum disease, osseous surgery would be the next step up. This process involves the removal of diseased gums and the repairing of damage to the teeth and jaw bone structures. This surgery helps in removing the deepest pockets of unhealthy bacteria and making sure that gum disease will not reoccur.
After either of these treatments, we recommend continual periodontal maintenance to ensure gum disease does not return. This procedure occurs every three to four months and involves a deep cleaning of the gumline. This would replace normal hygiene appointments and be a regular way to guarantee good oral health for years to come.
Are You Seeking Periodontal Treatment?
If you are seeking treatment of gum disease in Jacksonville Florida or would like to spend time to understand if what you are experiencing is gum disease, Caven Dental is always accepting new clients. With a team of five generations of dentists and staff, we combine the tried and trusted methods with the new expertise of modern dental technology. We strive to make everyone comfortable who visits us.
If you would like to make an appointment today, consider calling us at (904) 645-3366 so we can schedule you with one of our doctors, Dr. Richard Caven, Dr. Shelby Denman, and Dr. Stephen Carpenter in our office by Jacksonville, FL. We hope we can ease your anxiety and help you move into a better space for your oral health.
