- Dental ExaminationThe best way to prevent gum disease is effective daily brushing and flossing as well as regular professional examinations and cleanings. Unfortunately, even with the most diligent home dental care, people still can develop some form of periodontal disease. Once this disease starts, professional intervention is necessary to prevent its progress.
- Teeth Cleaning
- Veneers
- CrownsYou may have asked your periodontist about procedures to improve a "gummy" smile because your teeth appear short. Your teeth may actually be the proper length, but they're covered with too much gum tissue. To correct this, your periodontist performs crown lengthening.
- BridgesA dental implant provides several advantages over other tooth replacement options. In addition to looking and functioning like a natural tooth, a dental implant replaces a single tooth without sacrificing the health of neighboring teeth. The other common treatment for the loss of a single tooth, a tooth-supported fixed bridge, requires that adjacent teeth be ground down to support the cemented bridge.
- Root Canal TreatmentDr. Papasikos has served as Chief of Periodontics, Prosthodontics and Endodontics at Mountainside Hospital. He has served as an instructor at the dental residency programs at Morristown Memorial Hospital, Mountainside Hospital and Overlook Hospital and a past Clinical Instructor at UMDNJ School of Dentistry.
- Deep CleaningMany times, the early stages of periodontal disease are best treated with non-surgical periodontal therapy. This usually consists of good oral hygiene training, scaling and root planning and antibiotic therapy. Scaling and root planning is done under local anesthesia and involves the use of special instruments which go beneath the gum line to effectively remove calculus, debris and diseased root surface. These procedures are performed by our hygiene team of dental professionals. 4 to 6 weeks or later, the areas are reevaluated for changes such as decreased bleeding, tissue swelling, probing scores and has there been any re-attachment of the tissues to the tooth.
- DenturesIn the past, people missing all of their teeth had no option but dentures. This prosthesis has numerous disadvantages, such as...
- Dental ImplantsDr. Papasikos performs periodontal plastic surgery using lasers, gum grafts, Pinhole gum grafts and implants to enhance and rebuild smiles.
- Oral SurgeryThese problems, associated with tobacco use of any kind, are caused by the many chemicals, such as nicotine and tar, in tobacco. These chemicals have harmful effects on the periodontal tissues. They cause an increase in the accumulation of plaque and calculus (or tartar) that can irritate your gums and lead to infection. Following periodontal treatment or any type of oral surgery, the chemicals in tobacco can also slow down the healing process and make the treatment results less predictable.
- Jaw SurgeryProcedure makes it a better alternative to orthognathic surgery in cases like mandibular skeletal Class-III malocclusion. It also offers better anchorage due to a difference in support around the anchored tooth and the tooth to be moved; furthermore, the treatment window of approximately 4 months provided due to this procedure provides a decrease time duration for orthodontic therapy.
- Gum Surgery
- Tooth Extractions
- Ridge Augmentation
- OrthodonticsPeriodontally accelerated osteogenic orthodontics is a relatively new procedure designed to minimize the time taken for orthodontic treatment. The orthodontist avails of the aid of a periodontist to perform decortication of the bone and places bone graft for rapid orthodontic correction of malocclusion.
- Cosmetic DentistryPeriodontal procedures are available to lay the groundwork for restorative and cosmetic dentistry and/or improve the esthetics of your gum line.