Dental implants have deadly enemies too, and these behaviors are the most damaging to dental implants

Dental implants have been widely recognized by society because they have incomparable inherent advantages:

1. Improve quality of life. Compared with traditional dentures, dental implants make it easier for people to feel the deliciousness and fine texture of food, thereby improving people's quality of life.

2. Dental implants can protect adjacent teeth. Porcelain-fused-to-metal crowns require grinding down the crowns of adjacent teeth, while dental implants only need to be placed in the missing tooth area without damaging adjacent teeth.

3. The advantages of dental implants are also reflected in the fact that they can increase the retention force of complete dentures. Dental implants can better secure complete dentures and make them more stable; they free you from the inconvenience of removable dentures as well as gum pain, foreign body sensation, odor, and pronunciation effects caused by dentures.

4. Restore the occlusal function of natural teeth. The bite force of ordinary dentures is only 1/20 that of natural teeth, while the bite force of dental implants is close to that of natural teeth, allowing you to chew harder foods.

5. Maintain healthy alveolar bone. Long-term use of traditional dentures can cause alveolar bone atrophy. However, placing implants in the missing tooth area can increase the bone density of the alveolar bone in that area and reduce bone resorption; cavities will not occur. (The chance of implants developing cavities is 0%)

However, although dental implants are nearly perfect, encountering cigarettes is absolutely meeting a deadly enemy. This is because post-implant tooth maintenance includes quitting smoking.

Before dental implant surgery, doctors also strongly require patients to quit smoking. Smoking affects oral hygiene and forms smoke-stained teeth. Toxic substances such as nicotine in cigarettes also have a negative impact on periodontal tissues.

Cigarettes hinder the growth of epithelial tissue and wound healing, and tooth implantation is a special process in which the gap opened when the implant is placed needs to heal. Oral experts say that the wound healing ability of normal people decreases with age.

Reports show that the wound healing ability of a 50-year-old smoker is only equivalent to that of a 68-year-old non-smoker, which means that a smoker's wound healing ability is less than 30% that of a non-smoker. Smoking can cause inflammation around the implant, affect alveolar bone resorption, and cause dental implant failure.

If you smoke more than 10 cigarettes a day, the failure rate of dental implants will be two times higher than that of non-smokers. Even if the implant survives by luck in the initial stage, smoking after dental implant surgery may also cause the implant root to loosen, resulting in poor retention and easy falling out.

Within two weeks after dental implant surgery, smoking and drinking alcohol are not allowed, to prevent smoke and alcohol from irritating the wound and causing infection.

Cigarettes are only one of the natural enemies of dental implants. The following aspects should also be noted:

1. Do not eat spicy, overly hot, overly cold, or overly hard foods, to avoid irritating the wound.

2. Within one week after surgery, do not brush the surgical area when brushing your teeth.

3. Do not take glucose-type drugs or aspirin after surgery, to avoid worsening wound bleeding.

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