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Once your periodontic health has been evaluated, your periodontist will work
with you to determine the different options for the best treatment to attack
your disease and bring your health back.
Depending upon how advanced the disease is, the treatment can vary
enormously. If it is detected at first stages, easy procedures are performed
to remove plaque and tartar under the gum and thus eliminate bacteria that
cause infection. If this disease has advanced to the point that periodontal
pockets are deep and support bone has been lost, greater treatment will be
required.
Whatever treatment is required, the aim is to give you a good oral health
back and to keep it.
Among the benefits of a periodontic treatment are included; fresh breath,
youthful appearance, the capability of chewing the food easily and the
most important, gum free of infections.
Supportive Periodontal Treatment (SPT)
Once diseases have been beaten, the patients are regularly examined to
give them periodontal support treatments. This stage of the treatment will
let your periodontist to evaluate your periodontic health and to be sure the
infection is under control.
During the SPT, the experts examine your mouth, remove tartar and plaque
and, if necessary, they polish the teeth and check the bite.
Periodontic diseases are chronic diseases, as diabetes. Without a careful and
constant treatment, diseases can be back and they constantly do.
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