Doctor Elizabeth Kilpatrick Fox on Gum Recession and the Pinhole Surgery Technique
Speaker 1: People come in. Almost every adult has gum recession. And the traditional way of treating gum recession was painful, time-consuming, and very technique-sensitive. Now, we do it a little different with the pinhole technique. And Dr. Chao, who I was trained with, makes it so it’s very simple. He even calls it the lunchtime gum lift, where we would make a couple little holes, and we literally relocate your gum down to cover the root, and it heals. So now, when you smile, you don’t have these extra-long teeth and your roots showing, and it doesn’t even give you … one day’s worth of medicine, and it’s just, looks great, feels great, and they turn out fantastic. Patients are very happy when they have it done, especially if they’ve had the gum treatment done the other way. Then, they come back and say, “This is way easier. I wish I would have known about this.” It’s very, very good.