
Gum Therapy
Chao Pinhole® Technique
Dr Araldi recently became certified in one of the most exciting and patient-friendly gum therapy techniques in the industry.
The Chao Pinhole® Surgical Technique is quick, easy, and requires far less recovery time than methods used in the past. There are no scalpels and no sutures.
Watch this video, and then read a Q&A below with the Pinhole method’s creator.
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What is the Chao Pinhole® Surgical Technique?
Do you see this all the time?
Before this procedure, would people rather live with the problem instead of getting it fixed?
How long does the standard gum grafting procedure take?
To delicately cut and remove the graft tissue and attach it with sutures takes about an hour to an hour and a half for just one or two teeth. This requires the patient to recuperate for about two or three weeks.
What's the key to your procedure?
Then we can literally shift the tissue down with very little trauma to the tissue. Also, there are no open wounds. It’s so minimally invasive; nothing could be more noninvasive in dentistry than this.
I know that if you’re not used to seeing things like this it seems like it’s quite traumatic, but really it’s very, very minimal.
There’s so much blood supply and so much collagen in the area that when you see the patient the next day, you can hardly tell if anything was done. The tiny pinhole that’s been made shrinks away by the next day.
How long will this last?
Does this procedure cure gum disease?
So, we want to do it in a mouth that is not infected with any kind of inflammatory process, such as periodontal disease.
Are there any risks to this technique?
How expensive is it right now?
This was published in a very prestigious journal, right?
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