Dental Implants Can Be Removed

Dental implants have been a great technological development which can easily replace one or several missing teeth with a natural looking artificial tooth. Dental implants are usually used by patients who have lost all or part of their teeth due to serious tooth decay, broken or damaged teeth which cannot be saved, or as a result of accidents. Most patients choose dental implants as it has little effect on their daily life, unlike partial dentures. Unfortunately, in some cases a patient might find that opting for dental implants rather than dentures is better, especially through further tooth losses... The following article has been written to explain the different reasons why it might make sense to go for dental implants instead.

The main reason that leads to the question of whether dental implants can be removed is if your implant falls out of place during the course of the procedure. This leads to the immediate need for a replacement implant and therefore the dentist will usually recommend that you get this replaced as soon as possible, often within the first few appointments. In the majority of cases, the implant will be successfully replaced and the dentist will advise you to keep your implants until the normal growth process has finished.

Another reason that leads many people to ask can dental implants be removed, is when they develop a painful condition known as peri-implantitis. This can lead to an infection if it is left untreated, and so can often require the implant to be removed. If it is not removed in a timely manner then this can lead to severe damage to the surrounding gums and even result in tooth loss itself. Peri-implantitis usually occurs in older patients and is caused by too much force being used to insert the false tooth.

As with any surgical procedure, there can be various complications which may arise from dental implants being removed. One of the possible complications that can occur is osseointegration. This complication is when the osseointegration material that is supposed to keep the tooth implants securely in place becomes damaged. An example of this would be if a filling became dislodged and the dentist then had to remove part of the filling in order to treat the problem. Because osseointegration can occur with dental implants, it is important that any existing fillings that need to be removed are treated with a special type of antiseptic, and that the dentist thoroughly cleans both the area where the filling is being taken out and the area where the new filling is to be inserted before replacing the filling. Failure to treat this complication can lead to severe damage to the surrounding tissue.

Another common reason why dental implants might need to be removed is if they become misplaced. When this happens, it may lead to either the teeth becoming misaligned or the gums receding. In some cases, both parts of the tooth could become misaligned. The patient's jaw then cannot be properly aligned, which makes it hard to open the mouth widely enough to eat or drink. If a dentist detects that there is even the slightest chance that one of the dentures has come loose, he or she will usually have to replace it before performing the necessary procedure.

If the remaining teeth on the upper jaw are too damaged to comfortably support a denture, then the jaw is often irreparably damaged when dental implants are placed. There is another condition known as subnasal osteotomy, which involves placing the patient's jaw in an unnatural position so that a denture will not fit properly. With this type of surgery, the dentist first has to make a socket on the top of the head so that he or she can surgically affix the denture into it. Failure to do this, or if the law was put in an unnatural position, may lead to a loss of feeling in the jaw or even damage to the nerves that link the prosthetic tooth to the remaining natural tooth root.