Hearing that your dental images show bone loss can sound alarming, especially when nothing hurts. Here’s what those pictures reveal about your gums, and what deep cleaning is meant to do in response.
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Teeth are held in place by bone and gum attachment you can’t see in a mirror. Dental images let the dentist look at that bone, and when periodontitis has been active, the level may sit lower around some teeth than it should. Combined with pocket measurements, bleeding and calculus below the gumline, those pictures help decide whether scaling and root planing is the right treatment.
Linden Woods residents can have their images and gum readings reviewed together at Winnipeg North Dental on McPhillips Street in Winnipeg. Asking to have the X-rays pointed out on screen is a reasonable request, and it often makes the explanation easier to follow.
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Bone around the roots shows up on X-rays, something a probe can only hint at.
Bone findings are weighed alongside pocket depth, bleeding and buildup.
Bone changes from gum disease often develop without much discomfort.
Bone loss from periodontitis is driven by long-standing inflammation around deposits on the roots. Deep cleaning goes after those deposits so the inflammation has a chance to settle.
Plaque, hardened calculus and bacterial buildup are cleared from root surfaces inside the pockets.
This treatment aims to calm the disease process rather than regrow what was lost.
An assessment confirms whether deep cleaning suits your situation. Images are one input; your measurements and history matter just as much.
Here’s the sequence, starting with the pictures and ending with a review of how your gums responded.
Request your visitX-rays are taken or reviewed, and pocket depths and bleeding are charted around each tooth.
The dentist explains where bone changes line up with deeper pockets or inflamed tissue.
Planned sites are numbed and cleaned below the gumline, at one visit or across a few.
After healing, readings are repeated to see which areas have settled and which need attention.
If you’ve had dental X-rays elsewhere, earlier pictures can help show whether bone levels have been changing. Even knowing roughly when and where they were taken is a start.
Time and fees depend on how many sites need treatment, so ask after your assessment. Your insurer’s terms decide what’s reimbursed.
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The phrase can conjure images of something sudden or dramatic. In gum disease it usually describes gradual change, and seeing your own images explained calmly tends to make it far less frightening.
Ask which teeth on the image show the most change, and what that means for each.
Whether and where you’re numbed is settled with you, taking your plan and health into account.
It’s fair to ask what your findings suggest for the teeth involved.
Protecting what remains
For a little while after treatment, the cleaned areas can ache, flinch at hot or cold, or show some pink when brushed, before healing quiets them down. Steady home care afterward is a big part of keeping inflammation away from the bone that’s still there.
Bone can’t be brushed, but the pockets above it can be kept free of plaque with the routine you were taught.
If teeth with less support feel tender, softer foods for a while may help.
Reassessment and later maintenance visits watch whether each area stays stable.
Some things shouldn’t wait for the recheck: phone the clinic about bleeding that keeps on, swelling heading the wrong way, intense pain or a question your aftercare advice leaves open.
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Unit-5 2358 Mcphillips Street, Winnipeg, MB R2V 4J6Get directions (opens in a new tab)Images, measurements and treatment are handled at Winnipeg North Dental, Unit 5, 2358 McPhillips Street, Winnipeg. Linden Woods is in Winnipeg as well, and you’ll find a directions link here.
Call (204) 338-3003 or use the form, mentioning your X-ray findings if you know them. A request becomes an appointment once the clinic confirms it.
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Helpful details about scaling & root planning in Linden Woods.
Ask our teamNo. Its purpose is to remove deposits so inflammation can settle and the remaining support is better protected. If the lost support worries you, ask what it means for the particular teeth involved.
Gum disease often progresses quietly. Bleeding, deeper pockets and bone changes can be present without much discomfort.
That depends on what images you already have and what the dentist needs to see. Mention any recent X-rays when you book.
They might. Swollen gum can hide some of the change underneath, so as it shrinks back and firms up, more of the tooth or a gap between teeth may show.
A pocket that’s still deep after healing can be hard to keep clean, so extra treatment may be discussed for it. Your recheck separates the steady sites from any that need more.
Tell us in the form that it’s about X-ray results, or say so when you ring (204) 338-3003. Images and gum readings are reviewed at our McPhillips Street clinic in Winnipeg.
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Linden Woods residents can request a gum assessment from our Winnipeg clinic online or by phone, and the clinic will follow up.
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