Rebuild Your Gums with Advanced Gum Grafting Services

Your gums protect your teeth from infections, sensitivity, and other factors. However, the protective gum tissue may recede due to advanced gum disease, exposing your tooth roots. Gum recession causes numerous oral health issues and mars your smile’s appearance.

Gum grafting or soft tissue augmentation is a proven treatment for gum recession. If you’re worried about receded gums in Conyers, Georgia, visit the Periodontal Center of Georgia. We offer gingival grafting to replenish lost or receded gum tissues.

What is gum grafting?

Gum grafting is an age-old procedure for treating exposed tooth roots and rebuilding your gum line. It involves using donor tissue or tissue from the roof of your mouth and stitching it in the receded area. In a matter of weeks, the gum graft heals and attaches to your teeth, resulting in gums that not only look better but are also more uniform and tighter. 

What to expect from gum grafting?

Drs. Jean-Max Jean-Pierre and Robert Creager are periodontists highly experienced in gum grafting, so you can expect precise and successful outcomes. After examining your gums and overall oral health, your gum grafting procedure involves the following steps.

  • Anesthesia: We’ll administer local anesthesia to ensure your treatment is nearly painless. If you are nervous about your treatment, talk to us about sedation dentistry. 
  • Site preparation: The doctor will make a small incision on the gums to create a small flap. The doctor will also clean your tooth roots to remove any signs of infection.
  • Harvesting the gum graft: Your doctor will harvest healthy tissue from the roof of your mouth. We’ll remove a small wedge of the inner tissue and leave the outer layer untouched. We’ll then close the site with sutures to start the healing process.
  • Grafting: We’ll place the gum graft on the receded area and stitch it into place. The doctor might use sutures that fall out on their own or ones that need to be removed later. 
  • Post-op instructions: The procedure itself is painless, but you may experience mild soreness after the treatment. Our team will give you instructions to minimize discomfort and hasten healing. 

Every patient heals differently, but the average recovery period is 3-4 weeks. If you had several gum grafts at once, your recovery may take longer, but your periodontist will advise you on what to expect. 

Is a gum graft worth it?

Gum recession causes numerous problems for your smile. When your gums pull back from the teeth, this increases sensitivity, risk of decay, and gum disease. Gum recession also affects the aesthetics of your smile by making your teeth appear longer than usual. 

Gum grafting boasts a high success rate of over 90%. The treatment is also fairly quick (takes about 90 minutes), but the benefits are there for all to see. Gum grafting restores lost gum tissue and covers exposed tooth roots—improved gum coverage results in a more aesthetically appealing smile and improved oral health.

Should I consider gum grafting in my area?

If you have gum recession, start treatment today before the situation worsens. Receded gums won’t grow back—in fact, they recede further, leading to a higher risk of tooth loss. To discover whether gum grafting is right for you, call (770) 767-0603 to reserve a consultation with the Periodontal Center of Georgia.