Dental implant is dubbed the best way to deal with tooth loss, but not everyone is eligible candidate for it. Before conducting the treatment, you should pay more attention to the following three aspects. 

    Conventionally, a dental implant cannot be conducted until the extracting socket has healed, which takes about three months. It’s necessary to take an X-ray and CT to see the condition of your alveolar bone mass. Because there will be alveolar resorption more or less as the socket heals. 

    Besides, an overall checkup should also be taken to see whether there is systemic disease like hemophilia, and whether your blood glucose and pressure are within normal level. 

    Lastly, seek evaluation from your dentist to confirm whether there is development of dental calculus and periodontitis. If so, periodontal treatment, usually scaling, should be sought to control the bacterial infection and eliminate inflammation in advance of conducting dental implant surgery.

    Which procedure is the most important one during dental implant treatment?

    The service life of dental implant directly depends on the stability of artificial root. Whether the dental implant has firmly integrated with alveolar bone in about three months, is linked with the technique of dentist. At currently, most dental implant is made of titanium enjoying a good biocompatibility. We don’t need to concern a lot on its material. Instead we should focus more on choosing a good dental implant system. For instance, the US 3I Dental Implant System is rather stable. 

    In China, it is the South Korean Dental Implant System that is applied the most, because its cost is quite affordable. Besides, a temporary removable denture can be placed on the tooth to protect dental implant from damaging, if there is no other problems after removing stitches. Bear in mind to take good care of the artificial tooth root, including use of chlorhexidine mouthwash to eliminate inflammation and restrain bacterial growth.

    Will the treatment hurt?

    Local anesthesia will be applied before the surgery, so the process is almost painless. In most cases, it takes about an hour to complete the surgery, varying among different treatment plans. Chances are that there is red, swollen and slightly bleeding gums following the surgery, which is normal.

    You are allowed to take medicines and mouthwash against inflammations, with instructions from you dentist. Seven to ten days later, you need to pay a return visit for removing stitches. Your gum tissues will gradually heal. 

    It’s imperative to seek dental implant treatment from a professional dental hospital. Before the surgery it’s necessary take a thorough oral checkup to confirm the condition of bone mass, while after the surgery much attention should be paid to take really good care of it. 

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