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The Healthy Gum Solution:
Keeping your gums in good condition is important for good dental health. Perhaps even more importantly, uncontrolled, long term chronic gum inflammation places you at increased risk of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, arthritis and other health problems. This is why treatment and prevention of your gum inflammation is so important to improve and protect your overall health.
Remember: “Healthy gums never bleed
– never, ever.”
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Dental Currents:
» Dental Currents 1 - Dental Systemic Disease Links
» Dental Currents 2 - Understanding Inflammation
» Dental Currents 3 - The Health Equation
» Dental Currents 4 - Responsibility
» Dental Currents 5 - Health Care Trends
» Inflammation, Dental Health & Your Overall Health Video
HOW CAN YOU TELL IF YOU HAVE GUM DISEASE?
- Healthy gums NEVER bleed – never, ever!
- Red, inflamed gums
- Receding gums
- Bad breath
- Any change in the way your teeth fit together
- Loose teeth
HOW TO REDUCE YOUR RISK OF GUM DISEASE
- Improve your body’s ability to heal your inflammation.
- Proper diet rich in vegetables and fruits
- Moderate exercise
- Develop your effective personal stress management program
- Multivitamin/mineral and antioxidant supplements.
HOW TO REDUCE OR ELIMINATE THE CONTRIBUTING CAUSES OF YOUR INFLAMMATION
- Effective preventive home care – brushing, flossing
- Schedule professional cleanings with your hygienist as recommended.
- Make your mouth easy to clean. For example, straighten crowded, overlapped teeth; renew broken or leaking fillings. Eliminate or correct other contributing factors such as smoking and clenching and grinding.
- Consult your physician or pharmacist about your medications and medical conditions.
- Periowave Therapy to eliminate gum disease causing bacteria around your gums.
Periowave™ – a painless, non-antibiotic treatment of gum disease
WHAT IS PERIOWAVE THERAPY?
Periowave is a quick and painless technology that works to kill the bacteria associated with periodontal diseases, without the promotion of antibiotic resistance.
Periowave utilizes a non-thermal laser light combined with a photosensitizing solution designed to kill bacteria associated with the diseases. Killing the bacteria halts the progression of your gum disease and allows your healing to begin.
PERIOWAVE™ is:
- Painless
- Non-Antibiotic
- Quick
- Effective
- Safe
- For more information visit www.periowave.com