The New Way to Fight Gum Disease

I just got certified to treat patients with gingivitis and periodontistis with a product callted PERIOPROTECT. Consider the conventional means of "deep scaling and root planing" and add trays which seal tightly on your gums and you apply a medicine that is push under the gums where you are "suppose" to be flossing twice a day. Depending on your case, you would wear these trays 1 to 3 times a day for ten minutes at a time.

The results are fantastic. You would have immediate improve of your gum situation in 2 weeks and once under control you would wear the trays once a day for ten minutes. Mind you, this is not a miracle that replaces flossing and conventional gum and teeth cleanings, but it will minimize your need to see us. It would reduce "our complaining" how you are not getting the improvements we need to prevent gum disease. As well, the gums are a doorway to other systemic diseases such as heart disease and complication with diabetes, immunocompromised patients, and strokes. So you would heal these ulcerous areas and closed these doors. And as a plus to much better gums and prevention of decay, you get a bleaching action from the medicine for you will slowly get whiter teeth. In a nutshell, you are destroying a "biofilm" that we can only disrupt when you come in for professional cleanings. Think about the rest of the time you are not in the office and the plaque thagt collects on top and under the gums. These trays and your ten minutes a day will totally changed the game. Truly, the future is now.

This is the cutting edge of dentistry. It is FDA and ADA approved and can benefit all of our lives and make us a bit healthier. You can always contact me and I would be more than happy to discuss your dental health.

IS YOUR DENTAL OFFICE UP TO PAR??

How much do you know about your dental office? For instance, in our office, we do not use the city water of Atlanta. Instead, we have a closed system of water for delivery to our patients. We purchase distilled water for the office to help clean our sterilizers and use when treating our patients. Our closed system ensures cleanliness for patients who may have immune systems that are depressed, from radiation or chemo therapy, systemic disease, or HIV. Plus it is just clean. We fill up our bottles for each operatory and the water that comes out of our handpieces for cleaning or fillings, etc. is clean. Each week, we flush our lines so no water will stagnate in the lines with something like bleach, but made for our water lines. Not all offices have this feature, so you should ask them if they do. Another service we provide is using Emory Healthcare Services to check our sterilizers to ensure proper sterility. We place "spore strips" in the autoclave and send the "sterilized" strip weekly to Emory for testing. This is called "Autocheck."

If for any reason sterility is not achieved, we would have the time and dates to further investigate.

Of course, we use "universal precautions" when treating all patients. This means we say everyone is a possible candidate for spreading "germs." New gloves are used on every patient and taking off for us to check or work on other patients, so we "break" the possibility of contaminating our next patient. All rooms are "wrapped" with plastic to prevent fluids from contacting the counters or handles and then we wipe the rooms down after each patient. Then we rewrap the room and get it ready for the next patient. Finally, ALL metal instruments and handpieces are sterilized and we use as much disposable materials as possible to run a very clean office. If you ever have any questions on our protocol, please ask us. We are proud of how clean we keep the office.