375 Hawthorne Lane
Athens, GA 30606
706-543-0026
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Our team of periodontal specialists and staff strive to improve the overall health of our patients by focusing on preventing, diagnosing and treating conditions associated with your gums and teeth. Please use our dental library to learn more about periodontal and dental problems, as well as available treatments. If you have questions or need to schedule an appointment, contact us.
Soft tissue grafts are sometimes performed to treat gum disease, or correct other abnormalities.
The procedure involves taking gum tissue from the palate or another donor source to cover an exposed root in order to even the gum line and reduce sensitivity.
Periodontal procedures are available to stop further dental problems and gum recession, and to improve the esthetics of your gum line. For example, an exposed tooth root resulting from gum recession may not be causing you pain or sensitivity, but is causing one or more of your teeth to look longer than the others. In other cases, an exposed tooth rooth causes sever pain because it is exposed to extremes in temperatures or different kinds of food and liquids.
Once contributing factors are controlled, a soft tissue graft procedure will repair the defect and help to prevent additional recession and bone loss.