The main points of dental implant maintenance.
Dental implant, as a new method of restoration, has gradually become the choice of many dental patients.
A lot of people think they’re done with dental implants.
In fact, if you neglect the care and maintenance after surgery, it will greatly reduce the life of the implant.
After dental implantation, we must pay attention to the late maintenance and maintenance!
Maintenance point 1: Special implant cleaning around the implant and routine cleaning of the surrounding natural teeth.
An implant has a dental and periodontal relationship similar to that of a natural tooth.
The perforating part of the implant forms an epithelial cuff with the gingival epithelium to prevent various oral infections from entering the implant-osseointegration interface, thus maintaining the long-term stability of the implant.
The biological destruction of the cuff by bacteria and viruses and the mechanical destruction of the cuff by the force of the implant will have a direct impact on the service life of the implant.
Maintenance point two: regular adjustment (occlusion) treatment of the implant to adapt to the changing (occlusion) relationship.
The implant should be coordinated with the natural tooth to maintain the normal function of the orognathic system.
On the one hand, the wear rate of implanted teeth is different from that of natural teeth, which will destroy the establishment of physiological abrasion (occlusion) and cause trauma.
On the other hand, natural teeth always have forward and countertop movement, while implant teeth lack the driving force of these two directional movements.
Maintenance points three: regular inspection of the various parts of the implant is out of order, in order to timely repair.
Implants are made up of multiple parts like natural teeth, but natural teeth are held together organically, whereas implants are held together by screws or adhesives.
The mechanical connection is limited by fatigue life and mechanical properties, and it is easy to loosen each connection part of the implant.
The adhesive connection may loosen the prostheses due to the release or aging of the adhesive.
