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Southern Dental Periodontal (Gum) Regeneration & Laser Dentistry
Regeneration of periodontal defects.
A treatment option with capabilities to regenerate periodontal (gum) tissue.
The treatment aim of vertical periodontal defects is the regeneration of a true functional attachment. By definition, periodontal regeneration involves the reconstruction of three different tissue types: cementum, periodontal ligament, and bone. This means that the clinician must rely on radiographic bone fill and gains in clinical attachment levels as well as probing depth reduction to evaluate the effectiveness of regenerative therapies. For example, it is very important to select defects that lend themselves to flap support when Straumann Emdogain is employed as a monotherapy. More extensive, complex defects frequently require the addition of a bone graft material for flap support is required.
Dentists gently probe the site at a final postoperative visit at 8 weeks and then place the patient on periodontal maintenance every 1-3 months. They generally do not take a radiograph of the site until 6 to 9 months post-regenerative treatment. Since the healing of intraosseous defects in regeneration involves disparate tissue types, bone is the last tissue to be formed in a mature enough state.
Periodontal regeneration in the treatment of periodontal diseases is preferable to both patients and clinicians, because there is the opportunity to restore lost hard and soft tissues as well as decrease probing depths. Clearly, the decreased probing depths will allow for easier and more effective maintenance care while preserving function and esthetics. Restorative care will be more predictable, more easily maintained, and the patient will have been reconstructed with a new attachment apparatus that replicates the form and function of their original anatomic structures.
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Periodontal Defects Correction.
Brooklyn - Queens - Staten Island - Manhattan
Southern Dental
9920 4th Ave, Suite 301
Brooklyn, NY 11209
(718) 439-2988
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