| If you have gum disease you may want to | | | | just background noise, but there are a lot of |
| consider gum reconstruction. Bay Area | | | | people who still live in absolute fear of the dentist |
| periodontist Dr. Barney Lim to the rescue. Gum | | | | office, so much so that they would risk |
| disease used to be a simple concept, if you do | | | | devastating cosmetic consequences for the sake |
| not brush your teeth you get gum disease that if | | | | of avoidance. This is understandable when you |
| left untreated will cause your teeth to fall out of | | | | look at the fact that cut and stitch surgery used |
| your head. Of course there are more | | | | to be the only treatment for gum disease. While |
| sophisticated medical terms, additional risk factors | | | | gum disease was widely considered to be a less |
| and methods of prevention, but that concept | | | | serious condition, advances in dentistry were |
| pretty much sums up what I was told in grade | | | | slower to progress, but there is an alternative |
| school. | | | | now in the form of laser gum surgery. |
| The consequence of untreated gum disease is | | | | In the San Francisco Bay Area, Dr. Barney Lim |
| actually much more severe than the potential for | | | | was literally the first Periodontist to be certified to |
| tooth loss however, modern research has found | | | | perform laser gum surgery, and he is now |
| linkage between periodontitis and severe chronic | | | | considered one the nation’s leading experts in |
| conditions like cancer, stroke and diabetes. In | | | | the field. He has been a practicing dentist for 28 |
| short, there is strong evidence to suggest that | | | | years.. If you are reluctant to have this condition |
| periodontitis can actually lead to deadly ailments. | | | | treated, his website has all of the information on |
| Most of us would like to hold on to our teeth for | | | | the process, as well as his own professional |
| as long as possible and the additional ailments are | | | | credentials that should put you at ease. |