Periodontitis is the inflammation and infection of the ligament and alveolar bone supporting your teeth. It can have a significant effect on your overall health. A number of systemic diseases and conditions can also raise your potential risk for periodontitis.
Periodontal Medicine is a term used to describe how periodontitis impacts your general health. Periodontitis has been linked to over 57 systemic diseases and conditions like cardiovascular disease, cerebrovascular disease, diabetes, pre-term low birth weight babies, preeclampsia, respiratory infections and others including osteoporosis, cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, erectile dysfunction, Alzheimer's disease, gastrointestinal disease, prostatitis, and kidney disease.
Periodontal Medicine is important because periodontal disease is largely preventable and in many instances readily treatable. This provides many new opportunities for preventing and improving prognosis of several systemic pathologic conditions. It’s important to know which conditions in and around the mouth contribute to, and how they contribute to, the cumulative inflammatory burden on your body. Dentistry, for a number of reasons, is the ideal profession to identify and help manage many issues that contribute to inflammation and to systemic health.
We will assess your periodontal health and identify risk factors you may have. From this we will develop a specific home care routine for each person and a personalized schedule of maintenance to reduce and eliminate inflammation and thereby reduce your risk for systemic diseases and conditions. We refer to this a Personalized Periodontal Medicine.
A part of the Professional Personalized Periodontal Medicine protocol, we employ Guided Biofilm Therapy
What is Biofilm?
Biofilm is a complex community of bacteria that forms on teeth and gums. It's a sticky film that can lead to various oral and systemic health problems. The bodies response to these bacteria, inflammation, is linked to these disease processes.
What is Guided Biofilm Therapy?
Guided Biofilm Therapy is the systematic, predictable solution for dental biofilm management in professional prophylaxis using state of the art AIRFLOW®, PERIOFLOW® and PIEZON® technologies. It is proven by scientific evidence.
Guided Biofilm Therapy consists of treatment protocols based on individual patient diagnosis and risk assessment in order to achieve optimal results. The treatment is given in the least invasive way, with the highest level of comfort, safety and efficiency.
Why is Guided Biofilm Therapy a "game changer"?
Dental biofilm is the main etiologic factor for caries, periodontal and peri-implant infections. Periodontitis can increase the risk of 57 systemic diseases, such as cardiovascular and respiratory disease, arthritis or diabetes.
Regular oral hygiene at home, combined with professional measures keeps biofilm under control – for a better oral and systemic health. Axelsson and Lindhe established preventive dentistry in the 1970's with studies and clinical protocols based on prophylaxis in "recall hours”.