Gum Disease and Bone Loss Therapy

Poor gum health is usually signified or you can tell that it's there because of shifting teeth, red gums, bleeding when you brush or floss, bad smell, what else can we see, discoloration in the gum or teeth, and so when we can see that we know that there are problems. Sometimes we can reverse it, but if it's advanced then we have to pause it, and then when we pause it that's something that is an ongoing thing, but we can get people that we get from disease to controlled. We kind of liken it to high blood pressure or diabetes.

People aren't generally cured from high blood pressure or diabetes, but if you're well controlled, you can live life as if though you don't have those, right? So if you do have gum disease, that's something that we can get it to be controlled. You never even really have to change anything about it. At the first sign of that, we're going to start talking about very heavy prevention.

We use something called a GBT, or excuse me, an airflow that uses a GBT process. So airflow is the machine, GBT is the process. It's guided biofilm therapy.

Biofilm is the stuff stuck to your teeth. It's bio meaning life, so there's germs on there. There's food.

There's saliva. It's a sticky mess. Sometimes we don't get it all off of our teeth with our toothbrush or floss.

When you get here, we actually put something on the teeth that discloses or shows all of it, and then we can just gently wash the teeth and it all comes off. It means that my hygienists work less time because it's guided. They know exactly where they need to be.

They don't do anything more than they don't have to. It means it's healthier and easier for the patient because they're here less time. They're using warm water just to wash the teeth.

It's very gentle, and then there's a lot less of the scraping that we think about as far as getting teeth cleaned. So that's more into preventative, and then the other part that we use is something called perioprotect. So if we start seeing inflamed gums or swollen gums that bleed or people are complaining about a bad taste or something like that, we can move over to wearing a tray for about 15 minutes a day, and it just clears all of that.

This tray fits so well that it pushes all of the medicine. The medicine is very secret. It's hygiene peroxide.

It goes right into the gum and it kills all those bad germs. But it's just incredible the difference. We've seen some people that say, I don't know that I could say what's different.

I just feel healthier. My mouth feels healthier. I don't worry about it.

I'm not covering my mouth when I'm talking to people or smiling. I'm not covering my mouth when I'm talking because of a smell or a concern about that or a look about it. It just is healthier, and you know a healthy mouth when you see it.

The smile is more vibrant. It's brighter, and so people love that. When they come here, we can get them to be controlled or reversed for their gum disease, and they just feel healthier.