Gum disease is found to some degree in most adult mouths, usually causes no pain until it is very severe, grows slowly, eats away at the bone around the roots of the teeth that hold in the teeth, and is the primary reason adults loose teeth.

If your gum disease is mild, a simple professional cleaning or full mouth debridement and placement of the antibiotic Arestin under certain gums is all that is needed. For more advanced cases root planing, possibly followed by gum surgery, is indicated. To defer root planing or gum surgery for budgetary or timing reasons, less expensive full mouth debridement and placement of Arestin can be done.