When a spouse or partner comes home talking about pockets and deep cleaning, it’s natural to wonder about your own mouth. A household diagnosis is a good prompt to get checked, and it isn’t a verdict about you.
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Hearing that someone you live with needs scaling and root planing raises a fair question: should you be concerned too? Nobody can answer from across the kitchen table. Periodontitis is identified through findings in a particular mouth, such as pocket measurements, bleeding, calculus below the gumline and bone levels.
Birds Hill is outside the City of Winnipeg, and residents who’d like us to look at their gums come into the city for an assessment at our McPhillips Street clinic. You may turn out to have nothing that calls for deep cleaning, or you may not. Either way, you’ll be working from your own numbers.
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Someone else’s results can prompt a visit, but only your measurements describe your gums.
It’s useful context, and telling us makes it easier to discuss whatever you’re wondering about.
Routine cleaning and deep cleaning have different purposes, and an exam shows which applies to you.
Your partner’s experience may have made this all sound very familiar. Even so, the decision about you rests on four separate kinds of evidence, considered in your own mouth.
Several measures are looked at together, since no lone symptom settles whether periodontitis is present.
Treatment goes to the affected areas, and your plan might differ from the one your partner received.
Please don’t assume that you need treatment, or that you don’t, based on another person’s diagnosis. Suitability gets decided when the dentist assesses you.
Should your assessment lead to treatment, these stages give a broad idea of what’s ahead. If it doesn’t, you’d stop after the first one and talk about routine care.
Request your visitTell us your medical history, what you take and why you came in. Gum readings and whichever images are required come next.
You’re told what was found and whether it suggests periodontitis, and which areas it involves if so.
Planned roots are numbed, typically, and instruments then break up bacterial buildup and lift deposits from beneath your gums.
Once tissues have responded, a follow-up looks at how your numbers compare and what recall timing would suit you.
You don’t have to study up. It’s simply handy to think about whether you’ve seen bleeding, tender gums or changes in how your teeth feel, and when you last had a dental exam.
Any fees or plan coverage would be specific to your treatment. Your partner’s costs won’t predict yours, so ask about your own if something is recommended.
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A partner who has come home sore or complaining about freezing may have left you uneasy. Their experience may not match yours, so tell us what you’ve heard and ask what would apply in your case.
If any spot is sore while your gums are being probed, say so at that moment.
When treatment proceeds, local anaesthetic commonly helps keep the areas being worked on comfortable.
Anything you’ve wondered about while watching a partner go through this is fair to ask.
If you’re both healing
Some people barely notice anything after deep cleaning, while others have tenderness, temperature sensitivity or light bleeding. The amount treated plays a role, and these effects should generally settle down as tissues begin healing.
Instructions are fitted to your mouth, so please don’t adopt the routine someone else was given.
Choosing gentler meals for a while can help if your gums are tender when you chew.
Products and medication should be used only as directed for you, and growing symptoms deserve a report.
Phone the clinic about bleeding that persists, swelling on the increase, severe pain, or anything that isn’t in line with what you were told.
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Unit-5 2358 Mcphillips Street, Winnipeg, MB R2V 4J6Get directions (opens in a new tab)Exams and any treatment are done at Winnipeg North Dental, Unit 5, 2358 McPhillips Street, Winnipeg. Look to the directions link in this section when you’re planning to come in.
Ask for a time by using this form or calling (204) 338-3003, and the clinic will confirm. If you have an urgent problem, skip the form and telephone instead.
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Helpful details about scaling & root planning in Birds Hill.
Ask our teamBacteria can be shared, though having a partner with periodontitis doesn’t mean you’ll have it too. It’s a reasonable question to raise, and your own exam is what shows the state of your gums.
A check is reasonable, because gum problems aren’t always obvious from the outside. Your readings and images can show things you wouldn’t spot on your own.
Your home routine should be based on your own mouth. Ask at your visit whether anything needs changing, and which tools are practical for your own spaces.
Not necessarily. The number of appointments depends on how many of your areas are affected and how deep they are, if treatment is advised for you.
Then deep cleaning isn’t what you’d need, and the dentist can tell you what routine care makes sense. Hearing that would be a useful result too.
Send your request through this page or telephone (204) 338-3003. Birds Hill residents who come to us have their gums checked at the McPhillips Street clinic in Winnipeg.
A gum assessment could lead you toward any of these, or back to routine visits. They offer background reading until you have your results.
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It’s your turn to find out
If you live in Birds Hill, you can ask for an assessment at our McPhillips Street clinic in Winnipeg, and a reply from the clinic will confirm when.
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