Periodontal Maintenance in Palm Beach Gardens, FL

Gum disease is managed rather than cured. Tissue that has already lost bone stays more vulnerable than it was, and the bacteria responsible repopulate the pockets within a few months of treatment. Dropping back to a standard six-month cleaning is the most common way a treated case relapses.

At Bluewater Dental, periodontal maintenance at our Palm Beach Gardens office runs at three to four month intervals with pockets recharted every time, so we can tell whether ground is being held or lost. When numbers start creeping back up we intervene with scaling and root planing rather than waiting for the annual check.