i got my braces of 2 months ago, and while im glad how my smile is much nicer, im not happy with the fact i have a gummy smile. I went to a dentist consultation yesterday to possible do gum contouring surgery with a laser, and the dentist told me in my case (after examination) that they would have to use traditional scalpel and cut away some bone tissue for my case. she told me if i use traditional laser, the gums will eventually go back to how they used to be. so does that mean i cant do laser because the result wont last? im just afraid of traditional cutting with scalpel..specially if they have to cut some bone tissue
IIN regard to your query, since you are worried about your gummy smile before going for the surgery one must exactly evaluate the both the lip line and gum line because in some cases lip line will be high where gum surgery results in decreasing the biologic width thus leading to compromise in the tooth support esthetically and technically. Coming to your question laser treatment is more convenient to the patient because no blade, less bleeding and less time. If your dentist wants to proceed for gum correction using laser with bone removal then he must have both hard and soft tissue lasers. I assume that he might be having only soft tissue laser, so only he is preferring scalpel method so that he remove the bone by using erector and burs. Hope this has clarified your doubt.