Do dental implants still need regular professional cleaning afterwards?

A dental implant involves placing an artificial tooth root into the alveolar bone where the tooth is missing, then fitting a porcelain-fused-to-metal crown onto the artificial root. The implant is embedded in the alveolar bone to serve as a tooth root, increasing the stability of the denture and allowing better restoration of the oral chewing force, which is why it has earned the reputation of humanity's "third set of teeth."

Although dental implants are also dentures, these dentures, like natural teeth, remain in the mouth for the long term and, also like natural teeth, serve the function of chewing and grinding food. Natural teeth also trap food residue, and the calcification of food residue with oral saliva produces tartar. Therefore, natural teeth also require professional cleaning once or twice a year to protect oral health.

Dental implants are dentures, and dentures are foreign objects that cannot compare to the natural teeth one is born with, but their status is second only to natural teeth, so dental implants should be treated just like natural teeth.

Likewise, since dental implants have the ability to rival natural teeth, they also need professional cleaning once or twice a year. Moreover, regularly cleaning dental implants can reduce food adhesion to the teeth and can alleviate periodontitis and slow the process of gum recession.

In short, the later-stage maintenance of dental implants requires even more care and attention than the maintenance of natural teeth. With proper later-stage maintenance and care, dental implants can also last a lifetime!

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