How much do you know about dental implants?

In the view of many people, after making implant teeth, it can finally save trouble, because implant teeth can "grow" in the mouth like real teeth, realistically imitating human natural teeth, and the masticatory function is comparable to real teeth. Therefore, dental implants are recognized as the first choice for missing teeth in the field of stomatology in the world. But is this really the case? NO! In fact, people still do not know about dental implants, so there are a lot of misunderstandings. Let's take a look at the misunderstandings of dental implants. Have you ever been hit?

1. Implant teeth after all the problem teeth are extracted

Although dental implants have many advantages, as long as the real teeth can be preserved through treatment, they should insist on treatment instead of being pulled out easily.

two。 Implant teeth = porcelain teeth on natural roots

Making porcelain teeth on natural roots is medically known as "post-crown teeth", which belongs to the category of dental restoration, while dental implants belong to the category of dental implants. The "post crown tooth" is piling on the original tooth root and then putting on the porcelain tooth, so the premise of making the "post crown tooth" is that the root is in good condition. On the other hand, implants do not need to rely on the original roots, so it is wrong to think that implants are equivalent to making porcelain teeth on natural roots.

3. It's impossible to have a tooth implant after the tooth has fallen out.

Although part of the alveolar bone will be absorbed after the tooth is lost, there are still remaining alveolar bones or jaws that can be "nailed", and the implants can be used as artificial roots on these remaining alveolar bones or jaws. In addition, pure titanium has good biocompatibility with bone tissue, and osteocytes will bind to titanium, grow on the surface of titanium nail and bind firmly together.

4. Dental implants once and for all

At present, the service life of dental implants can be observed for at least 10 years, which is also related to everyone's usage habits and protection methods. Generally speaking, the implanted pure titanium artificial root is generally stable and does not need to be replaced, but if the crown of the implant is not well protected, it may need to be replaced.

5. Once you plant your teeth, you have to plant them all over your mouth.

It is not that once you choose an implant, you have to "plant" every place where you lose your teeth. For those old people who have lost a whole row of teeth or lost a lot of teeth, they only need to make a small number of implants as "bridge piers" for fixed support, and the whole row of dentures function firmly on the "bridge piers".

6. Dental implants are a terrible major operation.

Dental implant is actually a minor operation, and now it can be operated with minimally invasive operation, with less postoperative bleeding, no swelling and pain, and can plant all the missing teeth at once, and the pain and trauma are even less than tooth extraction. But the procedure is precise.

7. It takes 3-6 months to complete the implant.

In the past, the bad root of the implant tooth had to be pulled out, and the artificial root could not be implanted until three months later, and the crown could not be installed until three months later. Now, with the gradual improvement of the understanding of dental implants, in some cases, artificial roots and crowns can be implanted immediately after tooth extraction, which is 6 months shorter than before.