Are your gums red, puffy and tender? If so, a deep dental cleaning might be on the agenda at your next dentist appointment. Your dentist might recommend a deep cleaning when you develop certain ...

There’s a tension in modern periodontics that we don’t talk about enough. A clinical paradox. We have our primary enemy in sight: a pathogenic biofilm that destroys the structures holding teeth in ...

Probing around the gums and teeth using a periodontal probe: Periodically cleaning plaque/calculus from above the gums. Periodically cleaning plaque/calculus from below the gums (if periodontal ...