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Denver's Leading Dentist for Gum Disease, Root Canals & Implants
How is Your GUM ?
Gum Disease Is the Number One Cause of Tooth Loss in Adults.
Gum disease treatment without surgery.
Reverse gum disease without fear.
Heal your gums. Save your teeth. Change your life.
It starts with one call to Cherry Creek Denver's most trusted gum disease specialist.
Dr. Dana Ellis DDS
Marcus, 51, Senior Financial Analyst, Cherry Creek
My wife is the one who made the appointment. I want to be upfront about that.
I had been avoiding the dentist for years — not out of fear, just out of the kind of busy that becomes an excuse. When I finally went, my general dentist referred me to Dr. Ellis within the same appointment. That fast. She said my gum disease was beyond what she could manage and that I needed a specialist immediately.
The word immediately got my attention.
Dr. Ellis reviewed my X-rays and was precise and calm about what he found. Bone loss across multiple sites. Pockets measuring 8mm in the upper right. Two molars he described as being in a critical window — saveable now, but not indefinitely. He told me LANAP was the right approach for my case, explained the science behind it in terms I could evaluate, and scheduled me within the week.
I am someone who researches everything. I spent two evenings reading peer-reviewed studies on LANAP before my first session. What I found was not marketing — it was histological evidence, FDA clearance based on demonstrated tissue regeneration, clinical trial data showing pocket depth reductions maintained long-term. I came back to that first appointment more confident than I expected to be.
The procedure was two sessions across two weeks. I worked from home the first afternoon and was fully back in the office the next morning both times. The discomfort was real and completely manageable.
Fourteen months later — both molars are solid. Pocket depths down across every treated site. Bone levels on my follow-up imaging show stabilization and early regeneration in the upper right where Dr. Ellis had said regeneration was biologically possible.
My wife made that appointment. It is one of the best things that has ever happened to my health.
I would not have my teeth today without Dr. Ellis — and I mean that with complete precision.
Reverse Gum Disease -
Without Surgery
Most patients who search for gum disease treatment in Denver arrive at the same terrifying conclusion.
Surgery.
Scalpels. Stitches. Weeks of painful recovery.
Gums cut open. Roots exposed.
Teeth that suddenly look longer and feel more sensitive than before the treatment began.
It is the standard answer to gum disease and for millions of patients across America, it is the answer that keeps them from seeking treatment at all.
They wait. They hope the bleeding stops on its own.
They rinse with mouthwash and tell themselves it is getting better.
While the gum disease spreads deeper.
While the bone dissolves quietly underneath.
While the teeth that could have been saved begin their slow countdown toward loss.
Dr. Dana Ellis is only 18 min drive from Cherry Creek. He is Denver's gum disease specialist. First Top 10 LANAP Certified Dentist in Nation. Dr.Ellis has spent 35 years answering the question patients were afraid to ask:
Is there a gum disease treatment that works without surgery?
The answer is yes.
It has always been yes.
And Dr. Ellis has been proving it since before most dentists in Colorado
had ever heard the word LANAP.
As one of the first top 10 LANAP certified dentists in the entire United States —
certified when the FDA had just cleared the protocol, when the pioneers of laser gum treatment were still fighting to prove
what Dr. Ellis already knew he has reversed gum disease in thousands of patients
without a single scalpel ever touching their gums.
No cutting. No stitches. No surgery.
No weeks of recovery keeping patients from their lives.
Just gum disease — found, treated, reversed and a patient who drives home the same day wondering why they waited so long to make the call.
Gum disease treatment without surgery is not a compromise.
In Dr. Ellis's Cherry Creek Denver practice — it is the standard.
Gum disease is not a cosmetic problem. It is a bacterial infection living beneath your gum line, silently destroying the bone and connective tissue that hold your teeth in place. It begins as inflammation — gums that bleed when you brush, that look slightly swollen, that feel sensitive in ways easy to dismiss.
Most people dismiss them. And that is exactly how gum disease wins. Because beneath that surface, pockets are forming between your teeth and gums, bacteria are multiplying in environments that a toothbrush cannot reach, and bone is dissolving at a rate that has no pain signal attached to it whatsoever. By the time a loose tooth or a visibly receding gum line forces the issue, the destruction is often already severe. Gum disease is the leading cause of tooth loss in adults in the United States — not cavities, not accidents — and the cruelest part is that the majority of people losing bone right now have no idea it is happening. Left untreated, the outcome is not a possibility. It is a certainty. The teeth go. One by one, or all at once, they go.
Traditional gum disease treatment — scaling, root planing, and conventional surgery — has helped millions of patients, but it has a ceiling that the dental profession has been slow to acknowledge openly. Mechanical cleaning can reduce bacterial load and slow the disease. It cannot reach every pocket. It cannot sterilize the deepest infected sites. And it cannot regenerate the bone and tissue already lost. This is why so many patients complete a full course of treatment, maintain their three-month recall schedule faithfully, and still watch their disease return — still watch their pockets deepen again, still watch their bone levels drop on the next set of X-rays. Failed gum treatment is not always the patient's fault. Sometimes the tool simply cannot finish the job. What science has now confirmed — and what LANAP has proven across thousands of documented cases — is that gum disease can be reversed.
Not just managed. Not just slowed. Reversed. The bone that was lost can regenerate. The tissue that detached can reattach. The pockets that drove the infection can close. LANAP delivers that outcome through a laser precise enough to eliminate bacteria at depth, remove only diseased tissue, and trigger the body's own biological healing response — without a single incision, without sutures, and without the weeks of painful recovery that kept so many patients from seeking help in the first place.
Dr. Dana Ellis has been performing LANAP for over 35 years, among the first ten certified in the United States, and the results he sees in this practice every week are the same results the peer-reviewed science predicted. Gum disease is not a life sentence. But it does require the right specialist, the right technology, and the decision to act before the window closes.
"Gum Disease Does Not Have to Mean Surgery."
When a patient comes to Dr. Dana Ellis for gum disease treatment in Cherry Creek Denver —
the first thing they notice is what does not happen.
Nobody hands them a surgical consent form.
Nobody schedules them for four separate hour-long procedures.
Nobody prepares them for two to four weeks of painful recovery.
Instead — Dr. Ellis maps their gum disease in three dimensions.
A cone beam CT scan reveals every pocket depth, every millimeter of bone loss,every area of infection that a standard X-ray leaves invisible.
This imaging guides every decision that follows because gum disease treatment without surgery
demands more precision, not less,
than the scalpel it replaces.
Then — LANAP.
The PerioLase MVP-7 laser the only laser FDA approved specifically for gum disease treatment enters the gum pocket on a fiber thinner than three human hairs.
It destroys the bacteria at the source.
It removes infected tissue with a precision that no surgical instrument can match.
It stimulates bone regeneration
in areas where bone was visibly dissolving on the CT scan.
It seals the gum pocket permanently against reinfection without cutting, without stitching, without removing a single cell of healthy gum tissue.
Most patients return to work the same afternoon. Most report almost no discomfort. Most say the same thing when it is over:
"That was nothing like what I was afraid of."
And then — because Dr. Ellis treats gum disease the way no other dentist in Cherry Creek Denver does
the healing continues beyond the laser.
Biocompatible materials chosen individually for each patient's unique biochemistry.
Nutritional support amino acids, collagen, vitamins are recommended because what the body receives after LANAP
determines how completely it recovers.
A whole-body treatment plan that connects gum disease healing to heart health, immune resilience, blood sugar regulation, and the systemic inflammation
that gum disease has been silently driving for months or years.
This is gum disease treatment without surgery
at the highest possible level.
Call Dr. Dana Ellis Today. Gum Disease Treatment Without Surgery. Only 18 min from Cherry Creek Denver CO.
The first was best. Still is.
The Procedure
NO Surgery.
Each LANAP treatment begins with precision imaging and local anesthesia. A fine laser fiber — no thicker than three human hairs — is inserted between the gum and tooth. In moments, the light energy clears infection and stimulates healing. The tooth roots are then cleaned and smoothed, and the laser is passed again to create a sterile, protective seal.
The entire process takes about two hours per side. No cutting. No sutures. Most patients return to work the same day, often surprised by how effortless recovery feels. What once required invasive surgery and weeks of healing now happens in silence and light — a gentle recalibration of the body’s own repair system.
