What is a Perio Guard?
Perio Guard tray treatment gently applies medication comprehensive under the gums to fight the infections. You use it at home for a few minutes each day. It is easy, flexible, and custom-design for your mouth.
Gum disease is triggered by a bacterial infection that is hidden below your gums. Professional teeth cleanings can effectively treat the bacteria. However, when you go back home the it often remains. In some cases, bacterial cells may appear again a few hours after a cleaning, and toothbrush. Nonetheless, rinse and flossing may not reach deep enough to cleaning the infection at home. With Perio Guard treatment, you have a better protector against the infections. In additional to improved gums, patients generally reach whiter teeth and better breath.
Perio Guard is an innovative system that treats gum disease and gingivitis. It is also helpful for periodontitis by using a device to reach medications to a source of infection. The method is a home-based treatment that you will be very contented with and is applied for gum disease.
How to use and care for your Perio Guard tray?
Perio Guard treatment starts by taking impressions of the teeth at your home or a dental health center. And it is a very simple process, which is instructed by a video or photos. The impressions of teeth are then delivered to our dental lab where your custom-made trays are prepared by experienced technicians. When completed, the Perio Guard trays fit comfortably to your teeth and are easy to take off and put back. This process will take approximately two weeks. You, will then pull-out the Perio Guard trays yourself on your teeth and let your dentist know how they feel.
With Perio Guard treatment, medication is reached to the correct areas, in the right amount and at the right time. Reaction to the treatment is quick because the system is easy and simple to follow and the medications aid control the bacteria that causes the infection.
Some of the benefits of the Perio Guard treatment are that they may. As the gums heal, there is an improvement in sensitivity and tenderness, bleeding and swelling stops and there is a pleasant taste. Perio Guard treatment may also decrease fear of dentistry and help patient to feel relax more because the patient does not need to receive any needles.
Perio Guard is a custom-fit tray made by a specialized dental laboratory from impressions of the patient’s mouth taken by a dentist. Here are some benefits of Perio Guard trays: it may be delivered to the source of the infection aid in reducing the bacteria, substitute painful and expensive surgery, they help reduce bacteria and as they do, bad breath is eliminated, help to decrease the host inflammation when reducing the bacteria, help promote healing, decrease the bacteria which may help improve oral malodor, have been reported in professional journals to modify the plaque and biofilm and are bleaching agents and may whiten the teeth.