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Preventive · The foundation everything else sits on

Where Every Smile Begins.

Gum disease is the leading cause of tooth loss in adults, and it is close to silent until it is advanced. Measuring it takes fifteen minutes.

Book Gum Treatment
Appointment
60 — 90 minutes per quadrant
Course of treatment
2 — 4 visits, then maintenance
From
KD 120
Led by
Dr. Yasmin Al-Rashed

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What it is

Gum Treatment

Periodontal disease destroys the bone that holds teeth in place. It is painless for most of its course, which is why the majority of people who have it do not know.

Treatment is unglamorous and highly effective: accurate measurement, thorough non-surgical debridement, and a maintenance interval matched to your actual risk rather than a standard six months. Where bone or gum has already been lost, microsurgical grafting can rebuild a good deal of it.

Dr. Vogel trained in Bern under the school that wrote much of the modern protocol, and he sequences every cosmetic case at Aurelia behind gum health for a reason.

Dr. Yasmin Al-Rashed

Prosthodontics & Smile Design

Founded Aurelia in 2008 after nine years in London, and still plans every full-mouth reconstruction the clinic takes on.

Why it is worth it

What you actually get.

01

Teeth that would have been lost are kept

Stabilising the bone level is what keeps a tooth. Treated early, most periodontal cases never reach extraction.

02

Bleeding stops

Gums that bleed when you brush are inflamed, not brushed too hard. After treatment, they stop.

03

Receding gum line rebuilt

Microsurgical connective tissue grafting can cover exposed root surfaces, resolving both sensitivity and the long-tooth look.

04

Cosmetic work lasts longer

Veneers and implants placed against inflamed tissue fail at the margin. Healthy gums are why the ceramics still look right in year ten.

The process

What actually happens.

6 stages over 2 — 4 visits, then maintenance.

  1. 01

    Full periodontal charting

    45 min

    Six measurements per tooth, bleeding scores, recession and mobility, plus radiographs of the bone level. This is the baseline everything is judged against.

  2. 02

    Diagnosis & staging

    20 min

    Your case is staged and graded on the international classification, and the risk factors — smoking, diabetes, genetics — are put on the table.

  3. 03

    Non-surgical therapy

    60 — 90 min per quadrant

    Ultrasonic and hand debridement below the gum line under local anaesthetic. Thorough rather than quick; this is where most of the result comes from.

  4. 04

    Reassessment

    45 min, 8 — 12 weeks later

    The charting is repeated and compared. Most sites resolve; the ones that have not are identified precisely.

  5. 05

    Surgical phase, if required

    90 min

    Regenerative or microsurgical grafting for the residual defects. Only the sites that genuinely need it, only after the rest has settled.

  6. 06

    Maintenance

    Every 3 — 4 months

    Supportive therapy at an interval matched to your risk. This is the phase that decides whether the result holds.

Technology

The equipment behind it.

Inside the lab

Digital periodontal charting

Voice-entered measurements tracked visit to visit, so change is shown as a trend rather than remembered.

Piezoelectric ultrasonic debridement

Effective subgingival cleaning with less discomfort and less damage to the root surface than older scalers.

Microsurgical grafting

Tunnel technique root coverage performed under magnification with fine sutures, which is what keeps the aesthetic result predictable.

Guided tissue regeneration

Membranes and biomaterials that let bone and ligament regrow into a defect instead of letting soft tissue fill it.

Afterwards

What the next fortnight looks like.

  1. First 48 hours after debridement

    Gums feel tender and teeth may be sensitive to cold as the root surfaces are exposed to the mouth for the first time.

  2. First two weeks

    Gums tighten and stop bleeding. Some recession becomes visible — this is inflammation resolving, not damage.

  3. After grafting

    No brushing at the site for two weeks, a soft diet, and a chlorhexidine rinse. Sutures out at fourteen days.

  4. Ongoing

    Interdental brushes daily, and maintenance every three to four months. Periodontal disease is managed, not cured.

Real cases

Treated here, written up honestly.

All results
A Gum Line, Redrawn before treatment
A Gum Line, Redrawn after treatment
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A Gum Line, Redrawn 5 months · 6 visits

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“Two dentists told me receding gums could not be reversed. Five months later I can drink iced water again.”
Latifa Al-Hajri · Gum Grafting
“I had no symptoms at all. The charting found bone loss on eleven teeth. Three years later none of it has got worse.”
Khalid Al-Rumaihi · Periodontal Therapy

Questions

The things people ask.

Something not covered here? Ask us directly — we answer every enquiry within one working day.

It is common, but it is not normal. Healthy gums do not bleed when brushed, any more than healthy skin bleeds when washed. Bleeding is the earliest reliable sign of inflammation and it is worth fifteen minutes of measurement to find out how far it goes.
Gingivitis — inflammation without bone loss — is fully reversible. Periodontitis, where bone has already been lost, can be stopped and stabilised but the lost bone does not return on its own. Some of it can be rebuilt surgically. This is why the timing of diagnosis matters so much.
It is done under local anaesthetic, so the appointment itself does not. Afterwards the gums are tender for a day or two and the teeth may be sensitive to cold for a couple of weeks.
Because the bacteria that cause periodontitis re-establish below the gum line in about twelve weeks. For patients with a history of the disease, a three-month interval is the difference between stability and slow relapse. Patients at low risk stay on six months.
Often, yes. Connective tissue grafting using a tunnel technique can cover exposed root surfaces with a high degree of predictability, which resolves the sensitivity as well as the appearance. Whether it will work in your case depends on how much bone remains between the teeth.

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The foundation everything else sits on.

Swiss-trained periodontal care: disease stopped, tissue rebuilt where it can be, and a gum line designed to hold.

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