Although dental implants are the best way to repair missing teeth, for patients with missing teeth, they do not know whether they can do dental implants because of the different age stages of tooth loss. If there is no requirement, is there any age requirement for dental implants?
Young edentulous patients have strong metabolism and high bone density. After tooth extraction, the alveolar bone heals quickly and the healing quality is high, and the success rate of dental implants is relatively high. The elderly have relatively loose bone and obvious alveolar bone resorption, but this does not mean that the elderly cannot have dental implants.
In fact, a considerable number of elderly patients with missing teeth are suitable for dental implant restoration. For patients with poor alveolar bone conditions, dentists can implant bone before implant surgery to increase the height and width of the alveolar bone, and the postoperative alveolar bone can fully meet the requirements of dental implants. The general physical condition or the elderly with a certain disease but well controlled, as long as they can withstand tooth extraction, dental implant surgery can be performed to complete the implant restoration.
As early as the early 1990s, there were successful cases of 80-year-old patients undergoing dental implant restoration. The appearance of dental implants has effectively changed the situation of strong foreign body sensation and easy loosening of traditional dentures. It is beautiful, firm, comfortable, with little foreign body sensation and high chewing efficiency, which will undoubtedly greatly improve the quality of life of elderly patients with missing teeth. more and more favored by elderly patients.
