Initial Periodontal Therapy in the General Practice

A quality periodontal program in Philadelphia PA requires coordinated efforts between the patient, general dentist, hygienist and Montgomery County periodontist, Dr. I. Stephen Brown. It is important that the periodontal program include periodontal examinations on all patients, documentation of all clinical findings, continued assessment of the patient's periodontal status and that patients are aware of their current situation and recommended treatment needs.

The benefit of a soft tissue management program are generally well known and include:

-Helping patients to reduce or eliminate existing periodontal disease.
-Building rapport with new patients.
-Exhibiting quality care, enhancing patient education, informing patients of their periodontal status, satisfying legal requirements.
-Maintaining periodontal stability.
-Determining which patients need to be referred to the Periodontist.
-Improving the predictability of restorative care by creating a better environment in which to perform restorative dentistry.

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Non-Surgical Periodontal Treatment

Dr. Brown is committed to providing the most successful, least invasive and most cost effective methods of treating gum disease. Non-Surgical periodontal therapy focuses on treating the cause (specific bacterial infections) of periodontal disease, thereby permitting the tissues to repair themselves naturally. In most cases, this eliminates or substantially reduces the need for periodontal surgery. In the past, many people who had been treated with surgery only, had to have it again and again over the years. Now we know the reason why. The infection that caused the disease was by never eliminated a purely surgical approach to treatment. Anti-Infective Periodontal Therapy treats the tissue ravaged by periodontal disease, but more importantly, treats the infection that caused it as well. Contact the Philadelphia dentists at the Perio Group for more on treatment for gum disease through non-surgical procedures.