Thursday, November 12, 2009

Soft Tissue Grafts by Houston Cosmetic Dentists

Periodontal procedures are available to you through our expert team of local Houston cosmetic dentists. These procedure will help stop further dental problems and gum recession, and they will improve the esthetics of your gum line.

Gum recession can cause tooth roots to become exposed, causing teeth to look abnormally long. You may want to have a Houston cosmetic dentist improve your smile by covering one or more of these roots. Then again, you may not be bothered by the way these teeth look, but you suffer from constant discomfort as hot and cold liquids cause the nerves in the exposed roots to react..

There are many reasons why gums recede to begin with. You may have brushed your teeth with a hard bristle brush too aggressively. You may also suffer from periodontal disease. A dental examination by a Houston cosmetic dentist will be necessary to see which of these is the case.

Regardless of what ultimately caused your gum recession to occur in the first place, your Houston cosmetic dentist can correct the problem with a soft tissue graft. These grafts are done to cover roots and to develop gum tissue where it is absent. This procedure is also called “periodontal plastic surgery” and involves taking gum tissue from the palate or another donor source and using it to cover the tooth root.

1. When you arrive at the Houston Medical Center Dental Group, the first thing your cosmetic dentist will do is perform a complete dental examination of your mouth. This will check for things such as tooth decay, gum disease, and oral cancer.
2. The recipient site (in this case, the receding gum line) is prepared for the graft.
3. The donor site is chosen and prepared. Your dentist will take tissue from one area and move it to another. Or, tissue may simply be detached from an adjacent gum and rotated over so that original blood vessels can be used in the graft.
4. Sometimes, our Houston cosmetic dentists can use tissue that does not require a second surgical site.
5. Once healing has occurred, the recipient site has more tissue covering key areas.

This can be done for only one tooth, or it can be done for several teeth to even your gum line and reduce sensitivity.

There are several benefits offered by soft tissue grafts. A soft tissue graft will often reduce further recession and bone loss. In some cases, it can protect exposed roots from decay by covering them again. Your smile will obviously improve as a result of this procedure. Regardless of whether you have a soft tissue graft done purely for aesthetic reasons for primarily medical reasons, you can expect the quality of your life to improve as a result.

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1 Comments:

Blogger garydrew01 said...

Soft tissue grants could solve many dental problems which is great. Present cosmetic dentist really have a great contribution in the world of dentistry for creating beautiful smiles.

November 23, 2009 4:21 PM  

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