Periodontics

The office of Hilltown Dental offers comprehensive periodontal treatments to restore the health of your periodontium. Some of these are:

• Scaling and Root Planing: this is a non-surgical treatment for early-stage periodontal disease. It involves a deep cleaning of the mouth using special dental instruments and then smoothing out the root surfaces to prevent the infection from manifesting there again.
• Dental Crown Lengthening: Sometimes also known as a gum lift, this procedure is generally carried out to improve the health of the gum tissue, to prepare the mouth for a procedure, or correct a gummy smile.
• Gingivectomy: this is a surgical procedure used to treat advanced-stage gum disease. It involves removing and reshaping of the deep periodontal pockets between the gums and teeth so that the gums can attach to the teeth again.

• Root Surface Debridement: This is a specialized, deep cleaning of the root surfaces to remove calculus deposits from the deep periodontal pockets formed as a result of gum disease.
• Ridge Preservation: Dental ridge preservation is a procedure performed immediately after the extraction of a tooth, wherein a bone graft is placed at the extraction site to allow maximum preservation of the bone structure after tooth loss.
• Sinus Lift: This is a surgical procedure used to add bone to the upper jawbone ear the premolars and molars.
• Bone Grafting: Bone grafting is done to add jawbone in patients who do not have enough bone density at the site of a lost tooth/teeth to support a prosthetic such as a dental implant.