It’s best to get rid of this bad habit after dental implant surgery. Although dental implants are good, it’s also important to maintain your teeth after surgery, including quitting smoking.
In fact, before dental implants, doctors also ask patients to quit smoking, smoking will affect oral health, the formation of smoke stains teeth, nicotine in cigarettes and other toxic substances will also have a negative impact on periodontal tissue.
Cigarettes can interfere with the growth of epithelial tissue or wound healing, and dental implants are a special procedure that requires the opening of the implant to be healed.
Oral experts say the ability of normal people to heal wounds decreases with age.
But the report showed that the wound healing ability of a 50-year-old smoker was only equal to that of a 68-year-old non-smoker, meaning that smokers’ wound healing ability was less than 30 percent of that of non-smokers.
Smoking can cause inflammation around the implant, affect alveolar bone resorption and cause implant failure.
Those who smoked 10 or more cigarettes a day were twice as likely to have implant failure as non-smokers.
Even if the initial implant survives, smoking after the completion of the implant may also lead to root loosening of the implant, resulting in poor retention of the implant and easy to fall off.
In particular, do not smoke or drink alcohol within two weeks after dental implantation to prevent tobacco and alcohol from stimulating the wound and infection.
After dental implantation in addition to not smoking should also pay attention to the following points: 1, do not eat spicy, too hot too cold food, avoid stimulating the wound.
2. Do not brush the surgical area within one week after the operation.
3. Do not take glucose drugs and aspirin after operation to avoid aggravating wound bleeding.
