7/31/2013

Care of your dental implant





Many people ask the doctor missing teeth for yourself "kind of" on the few realistic shape, beautiful, comfortable dentures (ie implant). Once the teeth "kind of" living, some people think that everything will be fine, gnawing on a bone, biting sugarcane, eat anything, nor pay attention to oral hygiene, dental implants often leads to premature death results. Implant how care is appropriate? Dental implant once the "kind" entry, need intensive care. Dental implant care can be divided into postoperative recovery and proper use of the two phases.
Convalescent care - within three months after surgery

Dental implant surgery was not much, if not pay attention postoperative care, prone to wound infection, cracks, etc., severe cases can lead to implant failure. Therefore, patients should pay attention to the following questions:

1. The day after surgery, the patient should eat a half or full stream flow of food, stitches to advance pap, do not use teeth to chew food surgical area. Immediately after tooth extractions in patients with species, should not be used within three months after implant chew excellent food. To quit alcohol and spicy food. Under the guidance of doctors, appropriate to add calcium preparation, increased calcium foods, vitamin intake.

2. Within 24 hours after surgery, the surgical area can not brush teeth, so as not to irritate the wound. Pay attention to maintaining oral hygiene, brush your teeth once a day sooner or later insist, after a meal with mouthwash gargle several times to prevent wound infection.

3. Reduce the movement of the muscles around the surgical area, within three months after surgery try not to laugh, frequent speeches, etc., to prevent excessive movement of wound cheeks tear.

4. Frequently observed in the case of implants and wound, once problems are detected in a timely manner to the doctor reflect asap.

Normal use of care - surgery three months later

Dental implant comfortable, beautiful and good chewing function is often easy to forget that it's there, ignoring its proper use and maintenance, coupled with no natural teeth implants sensory abilities, can not occur after injury pain signals, once problems are often too late. Therefore, patients during use must note the following:

1. Let implant reasonably bear chewing function to prevent excessive force. Because each bone, physical health status and other factors are different. Dental Implants can chew food hardness and toughness are different, what kinds of food can not chew (such as bone, hard beans, meat, etc.) do? Patients should follow the doctor's recommendations, and gradually worked out their own teeth to chew food for planting, so that the effectiveness of dental implants get the best play.

2. Good oral and dental implant daily cleaning. Poor oral hygiene is easy to cause inflammation around the implant. In addition to insist once each morning and evening brushing and mouthwash after meals, it should also pay special attention to the health status of dental implants, the key parts are clean dental implant neck and the surrounding gum tissue. Bristle brush should be used in moderate hardness, the end mill for the round toothbrush, soft friction modifiers containing toothpaste and warm water. When brushing your teeth with the bristles at a 45 degree angle pointing direction of dental implant root, dental implants and gums pressing the junction, so that half of the bristles contacting implant, the bristles half of the pressure in the gums, in order carefully brush each tooth. Brushing action should be gentle, to avoid direct stimulation of toothbrushes, dental implant damage around the gums. Interproximal dental implant can use dental floss or interdental cleaners and other auxiliary cleaning can also be done under the guidance of a doctor periodontal massage.

Smoking increases inflammation of the surrounding tissue implant incidence Therefore, patients should be reduced after implant smoking, stop smoking.

3. Periodic review and medical care. "Species" after tooth brushing alone is correct enough, you also need to regularly go to the hospital for dental implants and natural teeth for clean governance, the general need to go to hospital every six months for scaling, timely removal of bacteria can not afford to go to regular brushing plaque and calculus. But also to ask the doctor to regularly check whether the connecting portion implant loosening, dental implants and natural teeth if there occlusal disharmony, if abnormal, the doctor can be corrected.

Intensive care dental implant process is the treatment of oral disease process, to learn the proper use and protection of dental implants, so as to ultimately ensure the complete success of dental implants.