Periodontal Gum Disease? Bay Area Doctor Can Help
Are you trying to treat your periodontal gum disease? Bay Area expert Dr. Barney Lim can help. Many serious illnesses have been attributed to prolonged periodontal gum disease. Bay Area specialist Dr Barney Lim can treat your gums with laser surgery as an alternative to the traditional cut and stitch brutality that keeps so many people from seeking treatment.
Dr. Barney Lim was the first dentist in the San Francisco Bay Area to become trained and certified to perform laser treatment and is highly regarded as a leading expert and educator in the field. In addition to his academic work as a professor he is a periodonist with 28 years of clinical experience, so this is an area that he has studied in both an academic and practical environment.
At Dr. Lim's website or office you can find a basic walkthrough of the process and have all of your questions answered. I have recently had to examine the process from a patient's perspective so let me get straight to the primary factors involved.
Unfortunately the first factor to be considered in most medical treatment, given the current economic environment is cost. The cost of laser surgery is comparable to scalpel surgery, when I say comparable I mean that some periodonists charge more for the traditional surgery than Dr. Lim charges for laser surgery and some charge less. If your insurance covers gum surgery then it covers laser gum surgery, they use the same code regardless of the method.
The second factor (a very close second) was the amount of time and pain associated with the procedure itself. At Dr. Lim's office you have a choice between local anesthesia (Novocain) and general anesthesia if you would prefer to sleep through the process. Hopefully, having a better understanding of your options will help you with your gum disease treatment decision.
