How to reshape your gums when you smile

Showing gums when smiling is a common phenomenon, but for many people, it is distressing and sometimes affects the appearance. This situation can be treated through certain methods, such as plastic surgery. The more traditional method is scalpel, but this type of surgery has higher precision and requirements. A newer treatment method is water laser.

How to reshape your gums when you smile

Traditional treatment: Scalpel

Traditional gum plastic surgery is mainly performed using a scalpel. Although it can achieve certain improvement, the scalpel method involves cutting and flapping a larger area, causing more bleeding during the operation, requiring sutures after the operation, and is less easy to stop bleeding. Therefore, the postoperative swelling and pain are higher, and the healing and recovery period is also longer. It is also more difficult to make precise cuts with a scalpel, so the healing results are less predictable and sometimes repeat surgeries are necessary.

New treatment method: water laser

Use state-of-the-art water lasers to replace scalpels to perform gum plastic surgery. Water laser surgery optimizes the concept of "minimally invasive surgery". The laser beam is used to accurately cut and remove excess gums and alveolar bone. In most cases, flap opening is not required, and therefore, sutures are not required to close the wound. During the cutting process, the microvessels and nerve endings are sealed by the laser at the same time, so there is almost no bleeding from the incision and very little swelling and pain after the operation. Water laser surgery requires almost no recovery period. You can eat, talk, go out or go to work normally on the day of the surgery. It will not be affected at all and will not be easily noticed by others. So it can be called "micro plastic surgery during lunch break."

Why do you need gum reshaping?

A confident and bright smile is an important tool to enhance interpersonal relationships. It is also an expression that makes people feel warm and has positive power. But for some people, they feel unsightly because too much gum is exposed when laughing, which makes a well-intentioned smile become a cowardly thing; or when they see others smiling with too much gum exposed, they lose focus because it is unsightly, which sometimes causes embarrassment. In order to improve the first impression that your smile brings to others, in addition to teeth whitening and orthodontic correction, gum plastic surgery has also become one of the options for creating a perfect smile.

Common problems faced by Chinese people in relation to gum plastic surgery include teeth that appear short, unnatural or asymmetrical tooth shapes, too much gums showing when smiling, or melanin deposits on the gums. These factors often force people to cover up their smiles, and deliberately suppressing them makes them appear to lack confidence and unable to show a relaxed and happy smile.

This type of problem is medically known as a "gummy smile". Common causes include excessive growth of maxillary bone, compensatory over-eruption of incisors, and failure of over-growth of gums to recede to the appropriate height.

These phenomena can now be solved with the help of the latest water laser minimally invasive gum plastic surgery. Water laser gum plastic surgery can also create customized gum treatments based on individual conditions and needs. Commonly used surgical procedures include crown lengthening, gum whitening, upper lip positioning and dental ridge plastic surgery.