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Once intial therapy has been completed and the follow-up assessment performed a maintenace schedule or additional treatment will be arranged.

If the gums healing nicely a normal maintenance schedule is cleaning at 3 month intervals. Research tells us that this is the ideal interval to keep the gum disease causing bacteria at their lowest level which gives you the best chance for success.

If one or several areas are not healing well additonal surgical treatment may be necessay to better clean or rebuild the area(s). In advanced disease cases this is the time where a decision may also be made to remove bad teeth to prevent them from affecting the teeth around them.