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Quinten Plummer's Articles

How to Find the Best Implant Dentist in Your Area

Posted on 3/3/2020 11:20 AM By Quinten Plummer

It’s no small commitment to decide to get dental implants. As such, you’ll want to find a dentist who you can depend on throughout the entire journey. Simply put: Finding the right implant dentist is critical. 

Dental Grafting: Preparing for Life with Dental Implants

Posted on 2/20/2020 5:11 PM By Quinten Plummer

The process of getting dental implants is life-changing. The restoration of biting and chewing function can significantly elevate your quality of life, especially if you’ve been living with missing or failing teeth for years. However, not everyone is a strong candidate for dental implants – at least not at first. But dental grafting procedures can remedy poor candidacy in many cases. 

Dental Implants: How Much Discomfort Can I Expect?

Posted on 2/10/2020 9:38 AM By Quinten Plummer

Even people without a strong imagination probably won’t have troubling conjuring up all sorts of nightmarish ideas about what it feels like having dental implants inserted into the jawbone. But it turns out, dental implants patients experience very little discomfort. 

Beyond Enjoying Food: The Other Benefits of Full Mouth Dental Implants

Posted on 2/4/2020 9:13 AM By Quinten Plummer

The restoration of biting and chewing function alone makes full mouth dental implants worth it to many people, but there are many significant benefits to replacing missing teeth with implants. 

How a Periodontist Can Help You get Gum Disease Under Control

Posted on 2/3/2020 3:33 PM By Quinten Plummer

There’s a lot a periodontist can do for you, especially if you seek treatment sooner rather than later. Even the most severe cases aren’t completely hopeful, thanks to advanced restorative solutions such as dental implants. Take a look at some of the things a periodontist can do with gum disease cases of a range of severities.

The Top Five Things to Know About Laser Gum Surgery

Posted on 1/31/2020 3:30 PM By Quinten Plummer

Dental lasers offer a powerful stopgap that can help you rein in even severe cases of gum disease, known as periodontitis. Take a closer look at laser gum surgery and find out the top five things you need to know about it.

Gum Recession, Gummy Smile: Perfecting Your Smile with a Better Gum Line

Posted on 1/23/2020 3:25 PM By Quinten Plummer

A receding gum line can make it appear as if some of your teeth are getting longer, while a gummy smile can make some of your teeth look much shorter than the others. Your local periodontist can treat either case, using crown lengthening for that gummy smile or laser gum surgery for teeth that appear to be growing. Take a look at what these procedures entail

Deep Cleaning: Beating Gum Disease with Scaling and Root Planing

Posted on 1/20/2020 8:48 AM By Quinten Plummer

The symptoms of periodontitis, advanced gum disease, are as serious as they appear to be, but all is not lost when the gums begin to recede and the teeth begin to decay. There’s still a lot an experienced dentist can do for you, including a deep cleaning. Find out how a deep cleaning can help you manage periodontitis.

LANAP: What to Expect Before and After Laser Gum Therapy

Posted on 1/9/2020 3:23 PM By Quinten Plummer

Advanced gum disease, when left untreated, can be absolutely relentless. Periodontitis is distinct from the early stages of gum disease, gingivitis, in that much of the damage it does is permanent. Though you can’t reverse the damage done by periodontitis, you can certainly stop it in its tracks and then keep it under control from there. Laser dentistry offers an efficient and affordable solution for stopping the progression of gum disease. 

Laser Gum Surgery: More Efficient Performance, Less Downtime for You

Posted on 12/30/2019 8:13 AM By Quinten Plummer

Over time, the mild swelling or the gums and irritation when brushing will start to do irreversible damage to your teeth and gums as gum disease progresses from gingivitis to periodontitis and eventually to advanced periodontitis. The sooner you act to get your gum disease under control, the more treatment options you’ll have available – including laser dentistry. 

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