What are Periodontal Pockets?
Your bone and gum tissue should fit snugly around your teeth like a turtleneck around your neck. When you have periodontal disease, this supporting tissue and bone is destroyed, forming “pockets” around the teeth. Over time these pockets become deeper, providing a larger space for bacteria to live and multiply under the gum tissue resulting in further bone and tissue loss. Eventually the teeth will be extracted or simply fall out.
