Dental Checkup
Overdue for your dental checkup? Comprehensive preventive care includes far more than cleanings, hygiene instructions, and check-ups. During your visits to our office, we perform a thorough assessment of your oral health. Healthy habits are foundational to keeping your teeth for a lifetime…and healthy teeth and surrounding tissues are foundational to great overall health. Plus, teeth, gums, and bone around the teeth need to be healthy and clean in order for our dentistry to be successful! The professionals at Frisco Square Dental are devoted to the prevention of gum disease in your lifetime, and we offer a full array of hygiene and non-surgical periodontal services to help ensure our success. If periodontal disease is detected, we will recommend action to treat this disease aggressively.
Periodontal Disease
Periodontal disease is a disease of the gums that can also affect the bone. Periodontal disease has been called the silent killer for many years. It can be painless and asymptomatic, so patients sometimes don’t even realize they have it. Some of the signs and symptoms of periodontal disease are swollen, red, bleeding, receding and tender gums. Bad breath can also come from the gums. We believe in early diagnosis and treatment of this problem because once bone loss has occurred, we can’t get it back, and very often teeth are compromised or even lost. We will not hesitate to refer you to a periodontist should the need arise.
Our in-house dental checkup and hygiene services include:
- Regular professional cleanings
- Patient education, including oral hygiene instructions
- Oral cancer screening
- Blood pressure screening
- Periodontal charting
- X-rays
- Periodontal therapy
- Irrigation with antimicrobial agents
- Sealants
- Referral to a periodontist if necessary