{"id":54527,"date":"2021-03-29T21:02:52","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T21:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo.dentalvibe.com\/dental-glossary\/lanap-laser-gum-treatment-periodontics\/"},"modified":"2021-04-08T21:47:06","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T21:47:06","slug":"lanap-laser-gum-treatment-periodontics","status":"publish","type":"dental-glossary","link":"https:\/\/dentalvibe.com\/en\/dental-glossary\/lanap-laser-gum-treatment-periodontics\/","title":{"rendered":"LANAP Laser Gum Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LANAP stands for Laser Assisted New Attachment Procedure and is FDA approved as a laser gum surgery technique to treat gum disease. The infected area is targeted and a laser is used to remove gum tissue. The benefit of this type of procedure is that it is very non-intrusive and does not affect the area surrounding the infected area, leaving more healthy gum tissue intact.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LANAP&#8217;s unobtrusive impact benefits the patient in the following ways:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Less pain and discomfort<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Less risk of bacterial infection<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No sutures<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reduced collateral damage to the gums<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More precision-based outcomes<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Quicker recovery<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It allows the surrounding tissue to heal itself, thus potentially avoiding follow-up surgeries.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As with other gum surgery techniques, LANAP is a last resort when other non-surgical gum treatments have proven to be ineffective.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","dental-glossary-categories":[4516,4528,4543],"class_list":["post-54527","dental-glossary","type-dental-glossary","status-publish","hentry","dental-glossary-categories-all","dental-glossary-categories-l","dental-glossary-categories-terms-and-procedures"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dentalvibe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dental-glossary\/54527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dentalvibe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dental-glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dentalvibe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/dental-glossary"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dentalvibe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dentalvibe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dental-glossary\/54527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dentalvibe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"dental-glossary-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dentalvibe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dental-glossary-categories?post=54527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}