If you leave gum disease untreated, your gums are going to recede. It often happens slowly at first, but then speeds up the longer your gum disease remains untreated. Once your gums have pulled back, getting them back in place requires either gum grafting or PST, also known as the Pinhole Surgical Technique. Traditional gum grafts are slow to place, and take a lot of time to heal. Since your mouth is typically used as the source for the gum tissue for a graft, you are left with two places in your mouth that need to heal after each gum graft—the gum that was placed, and the portion of your tissue that it was pulled from.
By using PST, we can change all of that. What we do is create a tiny pinhole in the tissue that is being moved around, then we move it into the position it should be in. Once it is there, we use collagen strips to hold that gum tissue in place where it belongs during the healing process. By the end, you have gums that are up in place on your teeth, and only one or two tiny pinholes in your gums that have to heal, instead of larger incisions and sections of your oral tissues needing to heal up after trauma.
