A cosmetic gumline change is rarely urgent, and many people sit on the idea for a long time. For Stonewall residents wondering whether to act or keep waiting, this page sets out what delay might and might not change.
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If your gums are healthy and the shape is your only concern, you are under no pressure to hurry. Choosing to wait is a legitimate decision. Things become less clear if you have bleeding, swelling or tenderness, because those deserve a look whatever you decide about appearance.
Stonewall is outside the City of Winnipeg, and residents who go ahead come into the city for care, at our McPhillips Street clinic. An assessment can come well before any decision, and may tell you whether putting things off would affect anything.
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A purely cosmetic concern can stay on your list until the timing feels right for you.
Bleeding, swelling or tender gums should prompt a call, separate from any plan to reshape them.
If veneers or crowns are on the horizon, the order of treatment may influence your timing.
Your eventual options come down to the anatomy. Knowing what each involves can show you what you are actually weighing up.
Tissue is removed or shaped with a laser or another careful tool, an option that requires bone at a suitable distance from the planned edge.
Crown lengthening opens the area surgically, allows bone to be adjusted if required and leaves the gum secured at its intended height.
Ask plainly: what, if anything, would I lose by waiting a year? The answer is often specific to your mouth.
Assessment and treatment are separate stages. You may stop after any of them, and pick things up again whenever you choose.
Request your visitYour concerns are heard, and photographs and gum measurements are recorded. You get information with no obligation to do anything next.
The tooth’s enamel boundary, the thickness of your tissue and, if needed, the position of the bone tell us what might be possible.
You can decide to proceed, consider another option or simply leave things alone for the moment. Your dentist can flag anything that needs attention sooner.
Treatment takes place with local anaesthetic, followed by directions for home. You come back afterward so closure, plaque control and any sutures can be attended to.
Holding off does not mean doing nothing. Regular dental visits and good cleaning keep your options open, and healthy tissue is a better basis for any later cosmetic decision.
Whenever you are ready to come into Winnipeg, ask how many visits the plan takes, and what it may cost at that time.
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People delay for all sorts of reasons: cost, nerves, a lack of time or doubt that it matters. Any of them is fine to mention. If nerves are your reason, knowing that the area is frozen for treatment, and that soreness varies, may help.
Ask what a course of treatment might involve, so you are planning around an actual figure.
Say so when you get in touch, and feel free to raise your questions first.
Uncertainty does not have to be settled before you come in to learn about your gums.
Once you do go ahead
You may have some more waiting after treatment. Tissue can look red, swollen or uneven at first, and the final contour takes time to appear. If crowns or veneers come next, they generally follow once the margin has matured.
An event or deadline soon after treatment may leave too little room for healing.
Your review confirms how the tissue has closed and how plaque control is going.
Restorative choices are confirmed only after the margin has had time to settle.
A cosmetic question can wait, but a worrying symptom should not: call (204) 338-3003 about it instead of using the form.
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Winnipeg North Dental
Unit-5 2358 Mcphillips Street, Winnipeg, MB R2V 4J6Get directions (opens in a new tab)Assessment and any treatment you settle on take place at Winnipeg North Dental, Unit 5, 2358 McPhillips Street, Winnipeg.
Sending a request today commits you to nothing. The clinic replies to you, and a time is set only after that.
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Helpful details about gum contouring in Stonewall.
Ask our teamNot simply because of the calendar. Your teeth and gums can change with wear or gum problems, however, which is why an up-to-date assessment matters whenever you do decide.
A gummy look on its own is a matter of appearance, not a diagnosis. Your dentist can tell you if anything found at an examination needs care, whatever you choose about reshaping.
Some of it may help as a baseline, but ask how long measurements stay useful. If much time passes, or your mouth changes, your dentist may want to look again.
Do not treat that as part of the waiting. Call the clinic and get it looked at, since gum health comes before any cosmetic plan.
A planned crown or veneer can be one, since the gum may be reshaped first and then given time to mature. Otherwise, the timing is largely yours to choose.
Yes, a phone call to (204) 338-3003 is a simple place to begin. Tell us you are still deciding, and ask what a visit into Winnipeg would involve when you are ready.
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Send Winnipeg North Dental a request whenever you are ready to learn more about your gumline. The clinic will write or call back to discuss a date.
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