Gum Disease Treatment in Rawalpindi

Plaque that is not removed within a couple of days hardens into tartar, which is rough, porous and impossible to brush off. Tartar holds bacteria against the gum permanently, and the gum responds with inflammation - red, puffy, bleeding easily. That is gingivitis, and a professional clean plus consistent home care resolves it.

If it continues, the attachment between gum and tooth breaks down and a pocket forms. Bacteria colonise the pocket, deeper than any toothbrush reaches, and the body resorbs the surrounding bone. That is periodontitis. Treatment stops the process and saves the teeth, but the bone already lost stays lost.

Most people notice the bleeding and decide it is normal, or that they are brushing too hard, and start brushing more gently - which makes it worse.

For gingivitis, a thorough scale and polish removes the tartar above and just below the gum line, and the gum settles within a couple of weeks provided the home routine changes with it. The clean is the easy half; what happens daily afterwards decides whether it returns.

Where pockets have formed, treatment goes deeper - root surface debridement, done under local anaesthetic, quadrant by quadrant, cleaning the root surfaces inside the pocket so the gum can reattach as far as it is able. This takes more than one appointment and it is not the same procedure as a routine scaling, whatever it is called on a price list.

Gum treatment fails more often from what happens at home than from anything in the surgery. Cleaning between the teeth daily, with floss or interdental brushes, is the single habit that decides the outcome, because that is precisely where the disease lives and precisely where a toothbrush does not go.

Smoking is the other factor, and it is a large one. It restricts blood supply to the gums, masks the bleeding that would otherwise warn you, and measurably reduces how well treatment works. We will not lecture you about it, but we will not pretend it is irrelevant either.