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Welcome Fellow Gum Disease Sufferers!

Administrator — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:08:57 +0000

Welcome to the Gum Disease Blog! We created this running Blog in 2007 to have an open forum for discussing Periogen®, the tartar dissolver, as well as home dental care in general. As more people become enlightened to the magic that is Periogen®, a new era is emerging where people will manage their own oral health, rather than living helplessly every day in dread of some future dental appointment, scheduled or not. Seek the assistance of dental professionals with the confidence that your home care regimen includes dissolving tartar.

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Why We Like Endoscopes

Administrator — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 21:57:52 +0000

It is no secret that we here at The Periogen Company are familiar (some of us personally) with deep pockets, deep cleaning, root planing, and the accompanying pain and expense. Why, then, would we want to discuss a tool–the periodontal ENDOSCOPE–used in the manual removal of subgingival (under the gum line) tartar? Well, for starters, it is used for other restorative purposes, as well, some of which we have tried. And most importantly, it enables the practitioner to actually SEE under the gum line so they are not blindly scraping under the gum but are instead able to work more carefully, more safely, more cautiously, more thoughtfully. We LOVE the endoscope.

Now, having said all this, PLEASE, don’t let anyone scrape or plane under your gums. You must use Periogen with an oral irrigator for three months minimum in order to understand if you still even HAVE a problem with subgingival tartar. Secondarily, once you have naturally dissolved the tartar with Periogen, depending upon how deep your pocket was (we have seen 10′s and 12′s), you may want to look at some bone and tissue restoration options. This is where the endoscope is vital.

The practitioner (we recommend Judy Carroll of PerioPeak, based in Washington State) uses Emdogain to stimulate bone and tissue growth around the pocket (now tartar-free, thanks to YOU and Periogen). If applied using a periodontal endoscope, there is little disruption and optimal application of the growth-stimulating Emdogain.

Blogsters: What say you? Questions? Comments?

Check out new Periogen testimonials on YouTube.

Administrator — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 21:41:14 +0000

For those of us who like to see as well as read customer feedback, we posted several Periogen testimonials on YouTube. Please check them out and let us know what you think: has your experience been similar, different? One testimonial, from a retired Navy Commander in his 80′s, is only 7 seconds long but packs a strong punch: http://www.youtube.com/my_playlists?p=39BAB6B0995CF04E.