Saving Teeth from Gum Disease and the Trash Can — Ain’t This Awesome?

Hav­ing prac­ticed den­tistry now for 12 years, I’ve seen a lot of dif­fer­ent stuff, tried dif­fer­ent tech­nolo­gies, dif­fer­ent tech­niques, etc.  Most of it works pretty well, some of it we dis­card and look for some­thing new or bet­ter, and occa­sion­ally we scrap the new and return to the tried-and-true tech­niques and meth­ods that have been around for a long time.  The ulti­mate goal, of course, is to pro­vide the best den­tistry pos­si­ble that will last the longest time, right?  Because after all, I know that you want to sit in my chair as lit­tle as pos­si­ble. 

Of all the dif­fer­ent things we do, though, there is now 1 that is just so incred­i­bly sat­is­fy­ing to pro­vide our patients, and that is LANAP, or Laser-Assisted New Attach­ment Pro­to­col, which we per­form with our Peri­o­lase MVP-7 laser.  First of all, it’s is just pretty cool that we have a laser!  (Imag­ine here Dr. Evil from Austin Pow­ers putting his fin­gers up and say­ing “Laser”  LOL)  But what’s sim­ply AWESOME about hav­ing the Peri­o­lase is what we can do with it, and that is to treat peri­odon­tal (gum) dis­ease more com­fort­ably and effec­tively than any­thing else avail­able.  Because of how amaz­ingly well the Peri­o­lase works, it is just this ter­rific feel­ing we get every time we treat a patient, or when we see patients com­ing back in for follow-ups, because they actu­ally LIKE com­ing to see us!  And I have to tell you, there aren’t many things that patients WANT and LIKE com­ing to see us about.  The other one, of course, is our 6MonthSmiles Clear Adult Braces — adults love get­ting their smile look­ing good so much faster than they ever imag­ine, and more afford­ably, too.

So let me show you just 1 exam­ple of why it is so sat­is­fy­ing help­ing peo­ple save their teeth from the trash can, because it is so typ­i­cal and nor­mal of what we see on a reg­u­lar basis.  Colleen had LANAP done in Decem­ber 2009, which means it is just at 9 months since her treat­ment.  She is get­ting ready to start 6MonthSmiles in Sep­tem­ber, which will help even more, but notice that her front teeth have already improved in posi­tion just by get­ting the infec­tion under con­trol.  Just how much of an improve­ment is this? Well, in the before pic­ture, we had not even treated her yet, but in the After pic­ture, it is imme­di­ately after a gen­tle cleaning.…..and her gums look great!

No won­der we love doing LANAP!  If you’re con­cerned about los­ing your teeth to gum dis­ease, please call us today at 704–364-7069 or Request an Appoint­ment Online.

Please let us know what you think about this amaz­ing result or if you have any ques­tions in the Com­ments sec­tion below.  Thanks!