If you have gum disease you may want to consider gum reconstruction. Bay Area periodontist  Dr. Barney Lim to the rescue. Gum disease used to be a simple concept,  if you do not brush your teeth you get gum disease that if left untreated will cause your teeth to fall out of your head. Of course there are more sophisticated medical terms, additional risk factors and methods of prevention, but that concept pretty much sums up what I was told in grade school.

The consequence of untreated gum disease is actually much more severe than the potential for tooth loss however, modern research has found linkage between periodontitis and severe chronic conditions like cancer, stroke and diabetes. In short, there is strong evidence to suggest that periodontitis can actually lead to deadly ailments.

Most of us would like to hold on to our teeth for as long as possible and the additional ailments are just background noise, but there are a lot of people who still live in absolute fear of the dentist office, so much so that they would risk devastating cosmetic consequences for the sake of avoidance. This is understandable when you look at the fact that cut and stitch surgery used to be the only treatment for gum disease. While gum disease was widely considered to be a less serious condition, advances in dentistry were slower to progress, but there is an alternative now in the form of laser gum surgery.

In the San Francisco Bay Area, Dr. Barney Lim was literally the first Periodontist to be certified to perform laser gum surgery, and he is now considered one the nation's leading experts in the field. He has been a practicing dentist for 28 years.. If you are reluctant to have this condition treated, his website has all of the information on the process, as well as his own professional credentials that should put you at ease.