A tooth will last a lifetime. Do you know how to take care of it?
With the gradual improvement of dental restoration technology, the current dental implant technology can be said to be very perfect, the service life is greatly extended, as long as the proper care, lifelong use is no problem, but the problem is how to care for dental implants is correct?
Here is a detailed introduction for you.
What is the life span of dental implants?
This is a question with no exact answer.
The service life of dental implants is determined by many factors, such as customer’s body factors, oral conditions, hospital technology, doctor’s technology, implant system, implant materials, postoperative care and maintenance.
Postoperative maintenance is an important factor, which is a long maintenance process. If well maintained, the service life of the implant can be extended.
How does ability after implant operation maintain let implant tooth use longer?
1. After the completion of dental implant restoration, there should be a gradual weight-bearing habit process, so as not to affect the service life of the implant due to excessive load.
Dental implants can indeed eat meat and bite bones, but we should pay attention to the frequency, not often bite hard objects, not because he is a denture can be arbitrarily “spoiled”, dental implants like the original real teeth, accept the wear of hard objects for a long time, there will be damage, so also like real teeth do a good job of protection.
2. Do a good job of daily cleaning of oral cavity and dental implants.
In addition to insisting on brushing teeth in the morning and evening and gargling after meals, special attention should also be paid to the hygiene of dental implants. The key part of cleaning is the neck of the implant and the gingival tissue around it.
Choose a soft and elastic toothbrush to clean the surface of the teeth and the gaps between the teeth. Use it with dental floss, mouthwash and mouthwash.
3. Regular review and maintenance.
It is not enough to brush and floss at home alone. Regular dental cleaning is needed to “wash” away plaque and dental stones.
At the same time, it is necessary to check whether there is loosening of the implant and whether there is uncoordinated occlusion. If there is any abnormality, it is necessary to deal with it in time.
4. Quit smoking.
For friends who smoke, it is best to quit smoking after tooth implantation.
One clinical study found that smoking causes bone tissue around implants to absorb 0.16mm more per year than non-smokers.
Another 20-year clinical study found that smokers were twice as likely as non-smokers to fail implants over a 20-year period.
In other words, long-term smokers tend to have a shorter implant life than non-smokers, and if this is combined with poor oral hygiene, the implant life may be even shorter.
The above is a detailed introduction of how to carry out correct nursing after dental implantation. In order to make dental implantation worthwhile and make full use of its value, we must pay attention to the nursing work of dental implantation at ordinary times, so as to maximize the life and give full play to its value.
