Hygiene and Periodontal Health

Healthy Gums

Healthy gums are essential to establishing and maintaining ideal oral heath. We provide a diagnosis or your current periodontal (gum) health, followed by recommendations on how to improve it and or maintain it. 

We can help you establish a dental hygiene routine that will keep your teeth healthy and white.

If you have any questions about your current hygiene plan please ask us. 

Oral Cancer Screenings

Oral cancer screenings are a very important part of the dental visit for the patient and are completed at every hygiene appointment.

Certain lifestyle choices can have a great impact on the health of tissues and your overall health in the mouth. If you are a smoker or heavy drinker, make sure to get regular screenings when you visit the dentist. 
 

Root Planning

In certain cases, there can be plaque, tartar and bacteria that accumulates below the gum line. In this scenario, after numbing, we will clean and smooth this area with special instruments to ensure that these sub-gingival areas are clean.  This process is often times referred to as a "deep cleaning" and can be necessary to establish ideal periodontal (gum) health in the presence of bone loss.