How much is the life of dental implants

1, the service life of dental implants is more than 10 years on average, with the patient's physical quality, oral hygiene and cleaning habits and bite force size and so on. The alveolar bone of young and middle-aged patients has sufficient bone volume, growth and reconstruction is more active, and the implant is easy to form a solid bone union, the alveolar bone atrophy and resorption speed is slower, you can use dental implants for about 15-20 years. Paying attention to oral hygiene and avoiding the retention of food debris and plaque can reduce the probability of dental implant peri-implantitis. Avoid excessive biting force after dental implant restoration. Eating hard things for a long time will cause the implant to loosen and fall off.

The maintenance of dental implants is divided into two major parts:

2, perioperative maintenance, that is, after implant implantation to the restoration of the former, is a simple broad perioperative, dental implants implant implantation surgery, there may be inflammation, swelling and pain and other symptoms of some of the discomforts, the main way to maintain is to give the situation to the anti-inflammatory drugs, pain medication, or some of the medication to reduce the swelling, and the second is to do a good job. Oral hygiene maintenance, if necessary, with some of the drug components of the mouthwash, to promote the recovery of periodontal tissues;

3, the restoration of the late maintenance. Implant upper structure has been worn into the mouth, its normal exercise of chewing function, but also to good maintenance of the implant, also divided into two parts, the first is a fixed denture. Fixed denture should be cleaned around the implant by flossing, flossing, and brushing. If necessary, you can also use some rinses after meals, depending on your personal situation. There is also a kind of overdenture maintenance, overdenture maintenance, patients should learn to overdenture removal, overdenture removed from the mouth, the upper part of the restoration is certainly the patient with a toothbrush to clean up, for the mouth of the implant and the upper part of the implant attachments, through the dental floss or the gap brush, around the implant and the upper part of the attachments around the food debris, soft dirt clean up.