What are you concerned about?
Start with what you have noticed or the treatment you are considering. These guides explain possible causes, choices, and questions to ask at an examination.
Bleeding or swollen gums
Understand gingivitis and periodontitis, what an examination evaluates, and how treatment protects the tissues that support the teeth.
Read the guideReceding gums or sensitive roots
Learn what can contribute to recession, when monitoring may be reasonable, and how a gum graft could be beneficial.
Read the guideReplacing a missing tooth
Compare dental implants, bridges, partial dentures, and leaving a space. Learn what care each option involves.
Read the guideA painful, bleeding, or loose implant
Learn how complications with a crown or screw differ from disease around an implant, and why assessment matters.
Read the guideGetting a dental implant
The steps from planning to the final tooth, including bone grafting, sinus lifts, same-day implants, and healing time.
Read the guideWhat happens if gum disease is not treated?
What untreated periodontitis can change, why symptoms do not tell the whole story, and what to discuss before waiting.
Read the guideGum grafts: cost, discomfort, and recovery
What affects a graft estimate and how to plan eating, cleaning, work, and follow-up while the tissue heals.
Read the guideTreatments Dr. Smith provides
Gum disease
- Scaling and root planing (deep cleaning)
- Periodontal maintenance
- Pocket-reduction (osseous) surgery
- Regenerative surgery with bone grafts, membranes, or biologics
- Diode laser periodontal therapy
Gum recession and soft tissue
- Connective tissue grafts
- Free gingival grafts
- Donor-tissue grafts (acellular dermal matrix)
- Tunnel technique for gum recession
- Crown lengthening
- Frenectomy
Dental implants and bone
- Tooth extractions
- Socket preservation
- Implant placement, including immediate implants
- Full-arch implants
- Sinus lift
- Ridge augmentation (guided bone regeneration)
- Peri-implantitis treatment
Healing and diagnosis
- Platelet-rich fibrin (PRF)
- Biopsy (Washington, DC office only)
Comfort during treatment
- IV moderate sedation (Chantilly, Virginia office only)
Dr. Smith places the implant; he does not make the replacement tooth. The dentist who referred you makes it, or, if you came without a referral, the general dentist at the practice where you see Dr. Smith.
Dental anxiety?
IV moderate sedation is available at the Chantilly, Virginia office only.
This option may help you feel more relaxed during treatment. Dr. Smith will review your health and planned treatment with you to determine whether it is appropriate.
Contact the Chantilly officeAfter your treatment
Instructions for the days after a gum graft, implant, extraction, gum surgery, deep cleaning, or sinus lift, with when to call the office.
Aftercare instructionsContact a dentist promptly for severe dental pain, swelling, or a tooth or implant that feels loose. If swelling makes it hard to breathe or swallow, seek emergency medical care now.