Periodontics

What is Periodontics?

Periodontics, in general, examines the health and pathology of teeth and the tissues surrounding the teeth and their treatment. Periodontal diseases include from simple inflammation of the gums (gingivitis) to serious infections (periodontitis), where inflammation of both bone and gingival tissues cause resorption of bone and bleeding/swelling respectively, resulting mobility and migration of tooth and malodor.

Oral hygiene education

In oral hygiene education, patients taught how to use toothbrush, interproximal brushes and/or dentalfloss to maintain their oral health. Proper oral hygiene, prevents recurrence of periodontal and conservative diseases.

Scaling and root planing

Scaling and root planing removes all calculus and rough/resorbed cement from tooth surfaces in order to eliminate gingival inflammation and providing maintenance of oral hygiene by patient. With oral hygiene education forms the basis of phase I periodontal treatment.

Mucogingival surgeries

Mucogingival Operations include surgical procedures performed to correct gingival and mucosal defects. Otherwise these may increase the severity of existing periodontal disease or prevent the success of periodontal treatment.

Implant surgeries

The surgical process of implant placement for restoration of missing tooth under local anesthesia

Extraction of impacted tooth

Impacted teeth are teeth that we would normally expect to come into our mouth, but could not erupt for various reasons and remained in our jaws under the gums or bone. Wisdom teeth are the most commonly impacted teeth.