Reading about your gums should not require a dictionary. For Margaret Park residents new to this topic, here is what the common terms mean and how they connect to an actual treatment.
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“Contouring” just means changing the visible outline of your gum around chosen teeth. “Margin” is the edge where gum meets tooth. Most of the planning you will hear about is really a discussion of where that edge can safely sit.
If a word used at our McPhillips Street clinic in Winnipeg goes past you, stop and ask what it means. You should be able to understand your own plan before you agree to any of it, and this page gives you a head start.
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This is the line along which your gum meets the tooth, and the part that gets reshaped.
Hidden under the gum, it marks where the natural crown of a tooth ends and the root starts.
Your dentist’s word for the slow settling of healed tissue into its longer-term position.
They sound technical, and they do differ in an important way. The first concerns gum alone, and the second may also involve bone.
“Gingival” simply refers to the gums. Here, chosen tissue is taken away or reshaped, by laser or another fine tool, because the bone is already an appropriate distance away.
Despite the name, nothing is added to the tooth. The procedure uncovers more natural tooth by accessing tissue and possibly adjusting bone, then securing the gum at the planned height.
Your dentist decides which term applies to you only after measuring, and can walk you through whichever one it is.
These are the steps you might see named in your notes or hear mentioned while you are in the chair.
Request your visitThis is the intended new edge of the gum. It is compared with how wide your teeth are, your midline and the smile curve.
Both are ways of finding out where the supporting bone lies. Either may be used when that position is not yet certain.
Gum can be thin or thick, and each kind reacts differently to being cut, positioned and healed, so this gets checked as well.
Following the procedure, your return visit reviews closure, meaning how the tissue has sealed, and plaque control, meaning how clean the area is being kept.
Write down anything on this page that remains unclear, and any word from past dental visits that stuck in your mind. Asking is part of giving informed agreement to treatment.
If an estimate or treatment note includes an unfamiliar term, ask for it to be explained, and ask about the cost at the same time.
Seating by the window in our waiting area, plus a consultation room.
It is medication applied to one area so that the region being treated stays comfortable while the rest of you is unaffected. You can ask what you will notice as it takes effect, and what you may feel when it wears off.
Any explanation can be repeated differently if the first version did not make sense to you.
That phrase covers the personalized steps you are given for easing tenderness after treatment.
This just means any bleeding from the treated tissue is dealt with during your appointment.
Terms for the healing stage
Your gumline changes on the day of treatment, while “final contour” means how it looks after healing has done its work. Avoid judging that from red, swollen or uneven tissue in the first few days.
During this stretch you stick to your cleaning, rinsing, eating and medication directions and leave the area alone.
Here, tissue drifts back toward its old position, which may happen when the anatomy underneath was not respected.
This refers to choices about crowns, veneers and similar work, which wait until your margin has settled.
Unsure whether something you are seeing is normal? Call (204) 338-3003 and tell the clinic what you notice.
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Unit-5 2358 Mcphillips Street, Winnipeg, MB R2V 4J6Get directions (opens in a new tab)Margaret Park is in Winnipeg. Residents who want these terms applied to their own smile can be seen at Winnipeg North Dental, Unit 5, 2358 McPhillips Street, Winnipeg.
Your form submission is a request for a visit. A staff member gets in touch to arrange the date and time.
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Talk with our team before your visit or learn about CDCP.
Helpful details about gum contouring in Margaret Park.
Ask our teamIt is a description of how a smile looks rather than a diagnosis. A number of different causes can produce the same appearance, so an assessment is what identifies yours.
It refers to how the position of your jaw affects the amount of gum on display. That kind of cause needs a different assessment from one focused on the gum itself.
No, they are separate things. Crown lengthening exposes more of your natural tooth, and it may or may not be connected to a later restoration.
Eruption is the process of a tooth coming through the gum. Sometimes gum continues to partly cover natural tooth structure after that has happened.
They are stitches. Not every treatment uses them, and when they are placed, your follow-up visit is when they get removed.
Try the clinic on (204) 338-3003, or use the form here to request an assessment at McPhillips Street, where your dentist can explain terms in the context of your own mouth.
You may hear these services mentioned alongside gum contouring, and each has its own page explaining how it works.
Learn how custom dental crowns in Winnipeg protect cracked, worn or root canal-treated teeth while restoring comfortable function, shape and appearance.
Explore serviceExplore how dental laser treatment may support selected gum and soft-tissue procedures in Winnipeg, with focused care and clear treatment guidance.
Explore serviceConsidering cosmetic veneers in Winnipeg? Learn which colour, shape, spacing and symmetry concerns they may address and what planning involves.
Explore serviceHave an urgent concern? Call (204) 338-3003 to discuss availability.
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