Healthy Gums and Teeth Create Beautiful Smiles
Are you alone in desiring a healthy, beautiful smile? In a study conducted by the American Academy of Periodontology:
- Respondents were seven times more likely to have periodontal and smile enhancement procedures than face-lifts
- Half of the 253 respondents considered the smile the first facial feature that people notice
- 80% of the respondents were unhappy with their smiles
- Smile enhancement procedures outnumbered eyelid surgeries five to one
If you’re looking for a new and improved smile that you can be happy about showing off to the world, PerioHealth Professionals™ and its team of oral care professionals led by doctors Mark McGuire and Todd Scheyer are the ones to see first. They are the periodontists and implant specialists that Houston, TX residents — as well as people across the nation — rely on for amazing results and an equally excellent dental experience.
These are the Primary Periodontal Health Services we Offer:
Treatment of Periodontal Disease
Periodontal diseases are bacterial infections that destroy the attachment fibers and supporting bone that hold your teeth in place. In the early stages of periodontal disease, the gums separate from the teeth and allow for more bacteria to set up a home in the periodontal pockets, which are the spaces created when the gums pull away from the teeth.
As the disease progresses, the pockets get deeper, more gum tissue and bone are destroyed, and the teeth eventually become loose.
If periodontal disease is not treated, the infection gets worse, and the teeth may need to be removed. We provide many treatment options to resolve this destructive disease.
Oral Medicine
As the link between oral disease and systemic disease becomes stronger, Drs. McGuire and Scheyer are prepared to be your team leaders in the diagnosis and treatment of oral diseases and will work closely with medical doctors to treat systemic conditions that also involve the mouth. Diagnoses such as oral cancers and other oral lesions, diabetes, malnutrition, osteoporosis and many other systemic disorders are often first identified in the mouth. When looking for periodontists, Houston area residents can turn to Drs. McGuire and Scheyer for the latest and most successful treatment techniques available today.
Dental Implants – Single to Full-Mouth Smiles
Dental implants, one of the greatest advances in dentistry, can be successfully used to replace teeth lost to periodontal disease and trauma. Implants are placed into your mouth and allowed to heal. They can be used, like the roots of your teeth, to support a crown, bridge, or dentures. Dental implants are an excellent treatment option for many.
At PerioHealth Professionals™, dental implants are our specialty, and we are Houston’s premier facility for providing custom treatment plans. Those looking for periodontists in Houston, TX can learn more about our specialized guided dental implant surgery procedure at our Guided Smiles site.
Smile Recontouring and Makeovers
As an adjunct to veneers or crowns, we can recontour the bone and gums that surround your teeth to create proper tooth lengths and gum contours to give you the most pleasing smile. Recontouring can sometimes be done with the use of a laser, which means no incisions, minimal bleeding, and shorter healing times.
Soft Tissue Grafting
If you were born with an inadequate amount of gum tissue, or you have lost soft tissue and underlying bone, our team can perform procedures to re-create these lost tissues and sometimes conceal the root surfaces that have been exposed.
Whether your goal is to cover the roots where your gums have receded, or just prevent further recession, we can transplant gum tissue and use the latest alternative materials to your own tissue. As far as periodontists in Houston, Texas go, PerioHealth Professionals™ is one of very few offices in the area that offer such advanced oral reconstructive services.
Laser Therapy
Our office has both hard and soft tissue lasers available to make your treatment as comfortable as possible.
We can shorten your orthodontic treatment with the use of Temporary Anchorage Devices (TADs) and accelerated orthodontics (Wilkodontics™).
Bone Regeneration
When teeth and bone are lost due to oral disease or trauma, your smile can be restored to the highest esthetic standards only by bone regeneration. Advances in science and technology allow us to re-grow missing bone, along with periodontal structures that attach teeth to the bone.
Reconstruction
Whether you need periodontal regeneration to meet your esthetic goals, or whether regenerated bone is necessary to support future dental implants, when in need of a periodontist, Houston, TX residents know that the PerioHealth team can work with your dentist and other dental and medical specialists to prepare the area for a natural and attractive replacement. The most difficult cases in our field are often referred to us because of our reputation for providing the most sophisticated care available.
With today’s computer-guided technology, PerioHealth Professionals™, the premier periodontists in Houston, TX, can accurately pre-plan your reconstruction, allowing us, in certain situations, to provide “temporary teeth in one day.” This technology also minimizes surgical trauma and allows for rapid healing. Patients are referred from Houston, all of Texas, and beyond for our sophisticated and excellent care.
