Gum Surgery
We provide a full range of gum surgery services to bring your mouth back to full health.
What is Gum Surgery?
Gum Lift
A gum lift is sometimes confused with a crown lengthening, which is a different procedure that involves removing both bone and gum tissue. Gum lifts only remove gum tissue. Gum lifts have become more attractive to patients thanks to the latest advances. Modern laser technology has made it so gum lifts are faster, nearly painless and require much less recovery time. In the past, gum lifts were done by making incisions and sometimes using sutures. Today, most dentists use a dental technology called a soft tissue laser to gently remove gum tissue. The laser cauterizes blood vessels (burns them closed) as it removes tissue, leading to less bleeding, less swelling and faster healing times.
Gum lifts do not treat a disease. There are several other types of gum surgery associated with periodontitis (advanced gum disease) that may end up having a cosmetic result but are completed for health reasons.
Gum Disease Treatment
If you have severe gum disease, your dentist will go over what procedures are best for your case and what minimally invasive options are best for you.
Just remember that the longer you wait to talk to your dentist and schedule an appointment, the more surgery will be required and in some cases, disease can spread beyond the mouth and cause the need for serious procedures done elsewhere in the body.
Minor gum surgery can also be required in order to access teeth either completely covered by the gums or to access areas of the tooth that are covered by gums. Small cuts are made in order to access these areas and anaesthesia and sedation dentistry are available to minimize or even eliminate pain. One common need for gum surgery in these cases is wisdom tooth extraction, which can be performed before the tooth has broken through the gum line.
