manor with straight smile solutions here to talk to you a little bit more about
orthodontics orthodontic cases and today we're gonna be talking about periodontal
disease and braces periodontal disease and Invisalign we're gonna be talking
about what this means and if you've been told you have periodontal disease can
you have braces or can you have Invisalign and ultimately let me go
ahead and tell you a little bit more and I'm showing this picture because I don't
know what this guy has periodontal disease or not I'm seeing signs of it
that may lead me to think that maybe he does have it but he may not so what is
periodontal disease periodontal disease is a disease or a breakdown of the
periodontal which basically means the attachment of the gums and the bone to
the teeth so we're all born with a certain level of gums and bone
attachment it's no different than if you plant a tree in your backyard you have
to have a lot of like dirt right earth to keep it stabilized and if you try to
plant a really tall tree in just a tiny bit tiny little pot it's gonna fall over
right it's gonna be kind of Wiggly it's not gonna be stable it's the same thing
with teeth right now over time our attachment or periodontal starts to
disintegrate or break down there are eight-year-olds with really healthy
periodontal they may have all there almost all their stability that they
were born with and part of this is due to genetics and part of is due to
environmental factors so there are certain things that you can do that will
accelerate the breakdown of your periodontal so for example like smoking
like poor oral hygiene if you have poor hygiene and you let calculus or tartar
or plaque sit on the teeth it does the acids will help to accelerate the
breakdown once you help break down it doesn't come back all you can do is make
it the area more healthy so that there's no infection so it doesn't continue to
get worse so you cannot grow your periodontal back you can just make it
more healthy so it's not getting worse right once it's gone it's gone
there are different surgeries and stuff that can add bone add tissue but that's
a whole nother story so basically I know that sounds super duper complicated so
you can get diagnosed with periodontal disease but it could be active or it
could be passive it could that means if it's active that means it's actively
happening and you need to do something to stop it so that it doesn't get worse
and make it healthy so usually that means cleaning out the bacteria cleaning
out the plaque cleaning out the calculus cleaning out the food removing any
active infection it might need some localized antibiotics stuff like that
okay also if your bite is not healthy for the
alignment of your teeth is not healthy this accelerates the breakdown of the
periodontal so that's why we do recommend braces or aligners for people
with periodontal disease so they can get their bite and their teeth healthy so
back to this picture that was a long long example but you can see in this
picture that clearly this bite is not correct right so those front teeth lower
front teeth are supposed to be behind the upper front teeth because they've
somehow got displaced moved forward now the bite is incorrect and I can flat-out
tell you this is accelerating the breakdown of the periodontal so this
person already has active periodontal disease this is gonna get significantly
less and this patient will likely lose their teeth so their lower front teeth
over time unless you a correct the bite or be stabilized the periodontal or most
likely both anyways so I think now you get the idea so no you cannot tell just
from a picture if somebody has periodontal disease you need your
dentist to do lots of things this will involve x-rays a clinical exam some
measurements where they call out those numbers all kinds of numbers and there's
healthy numbers and there's not so healthy numbers and then you add all
those things together and that tells you what's going on with the periodontal
disease okay but everyone probably age thirty forty
has a little bit of periodontal disease there's just past or present it's just
really hard not to like you know because it's just part of the aging process it
stinks but it's just there so but hopefully we're all passive but in any
case yes you should get braces you should get periodontal disease if you do
sorry you should get braces you should get a liners if you have periodontal
disease your dentist will need to keep more of an eye on the case make sure
everything's still healthy during the case sometimes it may mean that you
cleaning every two or three months and a check
during the braces you may need a periodontist that's a specialist of gums
and bones to keep an eye on your treatment to make sure everything's
still healthy so hopefully now you understand a little bit more about the
importance of healthy teeth bones and gum during your donek treatment all
right any questions let me know visit straight smile solutions comm I know
that wasn't the most fun topic but it's a really common question that I get on
my website so hopefully not only from patients but also from doctors and
people don't quite understand it so message me if you have any questions
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great day thanks but