Is a Bone Graft Procedure After Extraction Normal?

A bone graft procedure helps to build up bone that may have been damaged or become unhealthy due to infection. You may have heard your periodontist suggest a bone graft procedure after your extraction and felt it was unnecessary. Or your last dentist may have suggested it was unnecessary and just removing the tooth was fine to get your smile back on track. Dr. DenineRice and her team feel differently and here’s why:

An extraction of a tooth can remove healthy tissue as well as unhealthy tissue. Dental tools and procedures have changed, and are more effective and efficient then in the past but this procedure is not always a clean-cut procedure depending on the tooth and the gum tissue around the tooth. Some dentists and periodontists may not be familiar with bone grafting procedures or be comfortable completing this procedure. Dr. Rice, performs this procedure often and knows the outcome for her patients is better when they have the healthy tissue they will need in order to place an implant after the tooth is extracted.

The bone is a necessary component for keeping your teeth in place. Without enough healthy tissue to accomplish this goal, the implant cannot hold.

For more information on Bone Graft procedures, contact Dr. Rice and her team!

Are Your Gums Swollen

It may seem like no big deal on a day-to-day basis to have swollen gums, but leaving this problem unsolved and up to nature can cause major problems later on. Swollen gums may be the beginning of periodontal disease and other gum problems. Here are six problems you may encounter if your gums are swollen due to improper or absent flossing routines in your day to day life. 

The most important thing is to not wait. If you notice your gums are swollen do not assume it is nothing and make sure to make an appointment with your periodontist, Dr. Rice and her team. It is critical for your smile to be analyzed and the problem to be taken care of. In the meantime, if you are not brushing or flossing regularly. You will want to begin with these healthy oral hygiene routines. 

Eat more fruits and vegetables and decrease your carbohydrate intake. Fruits and vegetables can remove food from the surface of the teeth and get your gum health back on track. In between consuming meals, chew sugar free gum or brush and floss. Discontinue using tobacco or smoking. Both of these substances can irritate your gums further and cause more severe problems for your gums. 

For more information on swollen gums, contact Dr. Denine Rice and her team.

Why You May Need A Bone Graft After An Extraction

Bone graft surgery can help improve the health of your smile and if you recently had an extraction you may want to consider a bone graft procedure. It can be stressful to have a tooth extracted and you may be wondering, when you meet with Dr. Denine Rice and her team, now what? When you extract the tooth what is going to happen with my smile?

A bone graft procedure is usually completed immediately after an extraction to make sure you have healthy and enough bone where the tooth was extracted. Many times the reason for a lost tooth in infection which is in the bone. A bone graft cleans out infected tissue and replaces it with health bone. A bone graft procedure at the time of extraction can decrease the overall surgical procedures you need to have, and so can mean financial savings for you. If you have an extraction done and do not have the bone graft procedure, you may end up having to have a procedure later if you are moving forward with an implant or a denture, or you may notice that as the area heals shrinkage of bone that becomes that much more difficult to correct.

A bone graft procedure at the time of an extraction can also help hold your implant if you are doing an immediate placement. This procedure allows Dr. Rice and her team to have a wider ridge to work with when completing your implant procedure and will help ensure your implant will hold for years to come. 

For more information about bone graft procedures, contact Dr. Rice and her team today!

Get Your Smile Back

When you were younger you may have had strong enamel and a pearly white smile. Over time that may have changed and now you have swollen or bleeding gums, and missing or cracked teeth. You may hide your smile behind your lips and hope that no one notices. Unfortunately, research shows otherwise. People notice a smile before they notice other features and upon interviewing you, it can lead to the potential of losing a job. There is no reason to not have the smile you love with LANAP laser surgery, it can be the start of healthy gums. Once this is taken care of Dr. Rice and her team can evaluate the rest of your smile to determine what other cosmetic procedures may be done in order to give you back your smile.

 

Do not live with a smile that stares back at you and shows off the decisions you made in your twenties. Once you have the benefit of a LANAP laser procedure with Dr. Denine Rice and her team, you will see the health of your gums restored. Once a firm foundation is in place you may now have the ability to consider other treatment options such as implants or veneers.  

For more information on LANAP and other procedures to improve your smile, contact Dr. Rice and her team today.

Put A Little Spring In Your Step

Put a little spring in your step with our professional teeth whitening services! Rice Laser Periodonticsand Implant Surgery can remove years of stains caused by coffee, wine, cigarettes and aging with our in-office and take-home options. Whitening may seem like an unnecessary and extra service, but whitening your smile, can take years off of your smile and give you your confidence back.

 

Teeth whitening has become a large business where individuals work to whiten their teeth using at home created remedies. While there are multiple options for whitening products that sit on the store shelves, however, those products may not give you the results you are looking for. Further monitoring of your whitening process can help to decrease problems with sensitivity or other problems.

Depending on the stains that cover your teeth, will depend on the number of treatments that are needed. It will also determine the treatment that is recommended in order to improve your smile. Improving your smile can help to increase your overall self-confidence and improve the way you look. Dental research suggests that individuals who are in the sales or customer service business may want to consider whitening treatments in order to help improve their overall appearance and draw people to you.

For more information contact, Dr. Rice and her team.