Q: Do you recommend any sort of natural or alternative treatment for gum disease, such as homeopathy?
A: If a patient is using something I don’t know about, I always ask them to bring it in and show me the ingredients. As long as it doesn’t do anything detrimental, I don’t have a problem with it. Laser therapy could be considered a natural treatment in that we don’t use any external bone grafting and we use the body’s own cells to regenerate bone. We do have to anesthetize the patient, but the laser protocol is an effective and innovative procedure which can often obviate the use of traditional invasive surgery.
