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Is Gum Contouring Surgery By Laser Permanent?

i got my braces of 2 months ago, and while im glad how my smile is much nicer, im not happy with the fact i have a gummy smile. I went to a dentist consultation yesterday to possible do gum contouring surgery with a laser, and the dentist told me in my case (after examination) that they would have to use traditional scalpel and cut away some bone tissue for my case. she told me if i use traditional laser, the gums will eventually go back to how they used to be. so does that mean i cant do laser because the result wont last? im just afraid of traditional cutting with scalpel..specially if they have to cut some bone tissue
Mon, 26 May 2014
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In regard to your query, since you are worried about your gummy smile before going for the surgery one must exactly evaluate the both the lip line and gum line 'coz in some cases lip line will be high where gum surgery results in decreasing the biologic width thus leading to comprimise in the tooth support esthetically and and technically.coming to your question laser treatment is more convinient to the patient 'coz no blade, less bleeding and less time.If your dentist wants to proceed for gum correction using laser with bone removal then he must have both hard and soft tissue lasers.I assume that he might be having only soft tissue laser so only he is preferring scapel method so that he remove the bone by using airotor and burs.Hope this has clarified your doubt.
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Is Gum Contouring Surgery By Laser Permanent?

Hi In regard to your query, since you are worried about your gummy smile before going for the surgery one must exactly evaluate the both the lip line and gum line coz in some cases lip line will be high where gum surgery results in decreasing the biologic width thus leading to comprimise in the tooth support esthetically and and technically.coming to your question laser treatment is more convinient to the patient coz no blade, less bleeding and less time.If your dentist wants to proceed for gum correction using laser with bone removal then he must have both hard and soft tissue lasers.I assume that he might be having only soft tissue laser so only he is preferring scapel method so that he remove the bone by using airotor and burs.Hope this has clarified your doubt.