Your gum surrounding your teeth is similar to a frame of a house, in the effect that they provide form and shape to the top or bottom of your teeth.
In fact a less than attractive smile results from weak gum composition.
The is usually due to poor or inadequate hygiene of the gum, otherwise known as gum disease.
Which can result in the lose of gum tissue.
A type of cosmetic dentistry called gum surgery can help restore your gum from their current state.
And although there are a few chooses in the type of gum surgery one of the fastest and pain less methods is called laser gum surgery.
And just like it sounds a laser is used, with small amounts of energy, to remove diseased tissue.
How this works is that a laser with a rather small amount of energy is directed with great precision at the disease portions of the gum.
The laser then removes the tissue which is diseased, thus eliminating infection.
This whole process is done without any type of incision.
This is so because the laser immediately cauterizes (use of heat to close an area to prevent or stop bleeding) the wound, resulting in little to no bleeding.
The use of the laser is so effective that the patient only experiences minor discomfort making anesthesia unnecessary.
Since laser gum surgery is so effective the recovery time is less than 24 hours where traditional gum surgery requires 2-4 weeks of recovery time.
In fact the lasers for this surgical use where created by dentists and receive extensive clinical trials before receiving Federal Drug Administration approval.
Some other little known facts are the two most common gum smile problems.
One is called a "gummy" smile and the other "long in the tooth".
A gummy smile is where your teeth appear to be too short.
Oppositely, long in the tooth is when the gum line has shrunk or is deformed.