Tips To Healing After Laser Surgery

Laser surgery can help restore balance to your smile and to your mouth.  Not only does healing take less time then traditional periodontal surgery, it is not as painful. Traditional periodontal surgery requires the periodontist to cut back the gums and scrape out the bacteria from between the gum tissue and the teeth. Each quadrant (divide the mouth into four equal parts) is done a section at a time and then the healing begins. But when you use a laser for the surgery, the healing process begins almost immediately.

Fine hairs on the laser allow the laser to penetrate between the gum and the teeth.

There are no sutures and no cutting is necessary. All of the cleaning and healing can be done without the required down time. While you want to be careful about brushing right after surgery, after it heals you’ll want to go back to a regular brushing and flossing routine. “For a few weeks after surgery,” Dr. Rice recommends, “use a very soft-bristled toothbrush.” You should brush in gentle strokes around the gums until they are clean.

Establish healthy routines after LANAP laser surgery. It is easy to go back to our old ways. But if you want to keep that winning and healthy smile, your brushing and flossing routine needs to be completed on a regular basis. The only way to keep decay from coming back and attacking your body again is utilizing a soft-bristled brush to remove the food from the surface of your teeth and floss to remove food from between the teeth.

If you struggle with periodontal disease contact Dr. Rice & her team today.