Advanced gum disease

Although gingivitis, or early gum disease may have some beneficial effects, progression to advanced gum disease does not. Advanced gum disease has been linked to the development of serious diseases such heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, and renal disease amongst others.

Advanced gum disease is a major cause of tooth loss affecting eating, speech and appearance and is a cause of bad breath, so it can be a life changing disease.

It is surprising that the NHS puts no particular emphasis on dealing with this disease, and provides derisory funding to treat it. It affects 4 out of 5 people to varying degrees during their lifetime. At this practice we give it the highest priority, looking for signs at every checkup.

If you have unrecognised advanced disease, at some stage it is very likely your teeth will loosen and need to be extracted. Our new treatment QSIANT may help you, but at this late stage can't be guaranteed to succeed. Prevention is always best.

Non-surgical treatment

Specialist periodontologists and others may choose to use surgical approaches to treat advanced gum disease, and indeed so may we, but we believe we have the tools to reduce risks without resorting to this.

We are at the forefront of research into non-surgical treatment, having invented a new approach, which has so far helped over 200 people. Traditional approaches rarely do more than slow the disease and prevention of systemic affects is questionnable, with the disease slowly rumbling along.

Results from our work show people responding so well that there is no sign of advancing disease three years after the initial treatment. More information is available by following this link to QSIANT.