Periodontal maintenance costs after undergoing periodontal treatment average 115.
Laser assisted periodontal treatment.
Laser assisted periodontal therapy.
On average the patient can expect to spend about 85 for the treatment of gingivitis.
However that technique uses a different style of laser to attack bacteria.
How laser therapy works.
Minimally invasive gum disease treatment for moderate to severe cases.
Periodontal disease can increase your risk for conditions like stroke heart disease diabetes and respiratory diseases.
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Laser assisted periodontal therapy or lapt for short is the latest advancement in periodontal infection removal.
When the infected tissue is removed and the root is exposed the root scaling begins.
With minimally invasive laser assisted periodontal therapy patients who take blood thinners can safely receive treatment as the laser cauterizes the area to control or prevent bleeding.
Laser assisted periodontal treatments also can reduce systemic bacteraemic impacts potentially caused when bacteria spreads throughout the blood stream from a site of infection.
This allows for much more accuracy and the laser helps to reduce common side effects such as bleeding.
The most known periodontal laser therapy is called lanap laser treatment laser assisted regeneration is the only laser gum disease treatment fda cleared for true regeneration that uses the periolase mvp 7 laser type.
It was developed by robert h.
The laser uses a specific wavelength that targets and destroys diseased tissue and bacteria from periodontal pockets.
In lanap surgery a variable free running pulsed neodymium yttrium aluminum garnet nd yag at.
A laser can be used to treat the periodontal pocket.
Laser assisted periodontal treatment lapt is similar to laser assisted new attachment procedure lanap.
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Following periodontal treatment maintenance care appointments are important to monitor health and clean teeth and pockets as required to minimize the recurrence or progression of gum disease.
Untreated it can also result in tooth extraction.
Active severe periodontal treatment which usually consists of laser periodontal treatment like repair and lanap cost an average of about 1 000 1 100 per quadrant.
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The gum tissue is then sutured back into place to heal.