Samples of AAP Oral Health Brochures
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Something to Smile About: Care of Your Periodontal and Overall Health
With increased awareness about health and wellness, everyone is striving to live healthier lives. This brochure will help you understand the impact of lifestyle and health conditions on periodontal health. Brochure inserts discuss the relationship of periodontal diseases to other diseases, the effects of nutrition and medications on periodontal health, and
other factors that increase your risk for periodontal diseases.
Periodontal Diseases: What You Need to Know
Illustrations and easy-to-read language define periodontal disease in terms you can understand. This brochure serves as a guide to the causes, treatment and prevention of the disease. A set of four graduated inserts explain the link between periodontal diseases and heart disease, diabetes, respiratory disease, and pregnancy and pre-term low birth weight babies.
Enfermedades Periodontales: Lo Que Necesita Saber
Spanish version of Periodontal Diseases: What You Need to Know and related inserts.
Who Is a Periodontist and Why Do I Need One?
A brochure you can give to family members, friends and coworkers to help educate them on why periodontal health is important, how to prevent periodontal disease, and what a periodontist can do for them. Brochure insert contains special information on oral health care for patients over 55.
Periodontal Surgery: What Can I Expect?
This brochure discusses the potential need for periodontal surgery, pain associated with periodontal surgery, the healing process, and insurance coverage. Six brochure inserts describe Socket Preservation, Functional Crown Lengthening, Regeneration, Soft Tissue Grafts, Pocket Depth Reduction, Crown Lengthening, and Conscious Sedation.
Cirugía Periodontal: Qué Puedo Anticipar?
Spanish version of Periodontal Surgery: What Can I Expect? and related inserts.
Protecting Your Oral Health
Discusses Periodontal Maintenance Procedures (PMP), or supportive periodontal therapy, and how it enables you to control periodontal disease and increase the chance of protecting natural teeth. Also describes how you can benefit from PMP and how often PMP is necessary to maintain and protect oral health.
Cómo Proteger su Salud Oral
Spanish version of Protecting Your Oral Health.
Maintaining Periodontal Health Throughout a Woman’s Life
An excellent guide for women of all ages. This brochure defines periodontal disease while focusing on the special oral health needs of women during puberty, menstruation, pregnancy and menopause.
Tobacco & Periodontal Diseases: Targeting Tobacco Use
Describes the effects of smoking and smokeless tobacco on oral health. Problems associated with tobacco usage and benefits of tobacco-cessation are highlighted.
Ask Your Periodontist About Periodontal Disease & Heart Disease
Information on the link between periodontal disease and heart disease, including risk factors for heart disease associated with periodontal disease and the necessary precautions before dental treatment. A brochure insert is available that stresses the importance of talking with a periodontist about heart disease medications and the effects they may have on periodontal health.
Diabetes & Periodontal Diseases
Answers questions you may have concerning the special oral health needs of diabetics. Emphasizes the importance of periodiontist and physician working together to control both periodontal disease and diabetes.
How to Brush and Floss
Color photos guide you through easy-to-follow instructions for brushing and flossing. Stresses the importance of regular dental visits and includes a section to help you choose oral hygiene products.
Periodontal Diseases in Children and Adolescents
Color illustrations and descriptions alert you to the four basic signs of periodontal disease. Emphasizes the importance of good oral health habits for children. Extensive instructions on brushing and flossing are complemented by full-color illustrations.
Dental Implants: Teeth That Look and Feel Just Like Your Own
Summarizes the fundamentals of dental implants. Color photos highlight cosmetic advantages while focusing on issues involving treatment. A special pocket holds six procedural inserts.
Maintaining Oral Health During Cancer Therapy
Tips for preventing oral cancer and for keeping the mouth as healthy and comfortable as possible during cancer treatment. A brochure insert insert emphasizes the importance of taking an active role in preventing oral cancer, encouraging quitting the use of tobacco and doing self-examinations.
Periodontal Therapy: Where Do I Start
A discussion of scaling, root planing, and other treatments that your periodontist may use to eliminate periodontal disease and restore your oral health.
Periodontal Plastic Surgery: Crown Lengthening
Step-by-step description plus before-and-after graphics of a procedure that can correct a "gummy" smile. The periodontist removes excess gum tissue, exposing more of the "crown" of the tooth and creating the right proportion between gum tissue and tooth surface.
Periodontal Plastic Surgery: Dental Implants
This brochure offers a solution for people with missing or damaged teeth. Dental implants look and feel just like your own teeth and prevent the bone loss that often accompanies dentures.
Periodontal Plastic Surgery: Ridge Augmentation
Illustrated description of a procedure for correcting a depression in the gum line where natural teeth are missing.
Periodontal Plastic Surgery: Root Coverage
Soft tissue grafts can be used to cover roots and protect them from decay, develop gum tissue affected by gingival recession, and prepare teeth for orthodontic treatment.
Periodontal Plastic Surgery: Combination Procedures
Before-and-after photos illustrate periodontal procedures that a periodontist may use to build a framework for a perfect smile.
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