Dental Implant Complications

Dental Implant Complications|Dental Implant Infection:

A dental implant infection is a serious thing and should be covered immediately. Using improper sterile technique when surgically placing a dental implant can lead to important problems. However, in the United States at to the lowest degree, this is very uncommon. Dental implant manufacturers make great efforts to sterilize and package their dental implants so that there is no bacterial contamination. The mouth holds many potentially harmful bacteria that lurk in the gums tissues and any of these bacteria can possibly invade the area around an implant.

A dental implant infection can occur when surgically placing a dental implant, but it occurs most commonly with a previously placed implant. When treating a previously placed implant, the dental implant dentist normally prescribes an proper antibiotic and then debrides the gum tissue area surrounding the dental implant. The problem may then decide.
Sometimes the dental implant dentist will remove the dental work above the dental implant to give the ailing dental implant a vacation. The stresses and strains placed upon a dental implant can aggravate problems. After the dental implant infection is gone, very often, the special dental work can be exchanged on top of the dental implant.

With the dental work replaced and the difficulty handled, the next decision to be made is whether the patient needs surgery to repair any damage. A dental implant infection can cause supporting bone loss or damage the protective gum tissue surrounding a dental implant.

Dental Implant Complications|Dental Implant Rejection:

Our body protects itself by rejecting anything it does not believe belongs. One of the risks of kidney or heart transplants is that the patient’s body can reject the new organ. Dental implant rejection is when this happens to a dental implant.

Typically, the first thing that happens with dental implant rejection is that the bone and gums surrounding the dental implant gets inflamed, red and swollen. The patient’s immune organization attacks this tissue. As the support for the dental implant is lost, the area around the dental implant becomes poor and the dental implant gets loose. In most cases, the dental implant must then be removed.

Dental Implant Complications|Dental implant Overload:

Nobody likes to be overworked. Dental implant dentist says that a dental implant is overloaded when the dental implant has too much work to do. It is always best to have one dental implant replace one missing tooth. However, dental implant patients do not always want to pay for the best treatment available and dental implant dentists try hard to delight their patients. Yes, a dental implant patient can get by with less than one dental implant per missing tooth, but this is not ideal and leads to overworking the dental implants harder than the original natural teeth! In the long run, the money saved may not be worth it. In matters of health, it is always better to choose the better road, not the cheapest.

Dental implants can also be overloaded by poorly designing the dental work on top of the dental implants or by poorly placing the dental implants. Both of these problems can often be avoided with excellent dental implant treatment planning before the dental implants are ever placed. Dental implants should ideally be placed so that a dental implant patient’s biting forces are directed straight downward onto the dental implant. This can not always be achieved especially when a dental implant patient has lost a great deal of bone.

Dental Implant Complications|Dental implant Failure/Breakage:

Things break. There is only so much pressure that metal can take before it snaps and dental implants are made of metal. It is usually the dental implant post that breaks and causes the dental implant failure, not the dental implant. The constant crushing forces of a dental implant patient’s bite can cause a tremendous amount of pressure to build up on the dental implant and the dental implant post which can then result in a serious problem.

It is very important to place a dental implant in the jaw bone so that it can best handle the forces put upon it. This is the first step in preventing a dental implant failure. The dental work on top of the dental implant must also be designed so that the dental work does not bend the dental implant post when the patient chews.
Some dental implant patients grind their teeth constantly and this grinding applies a great deal of force to the dental implant post. Many dentists make grinding guards for their dental implant patients to help better distribute the grinding forces, especially during the night, and so decrease the factors that lead to dental implant failure.

When you bend a metal bar with a light force, the bar bends and then returns to its original shape when you let go. This is because the metal is elastic with light forces much like a rubber band. A rubber band can be stretched and it returned to its original force. When more force is applied to the metal bar, the bar bends but does not return to its original shape. With heavy forces metal is not elastic. It is inelastic! When large sudden forces or constant heavy forces are applied to a metal bar, the metal bar can break. In a dental implant, this results in a dental implant failure. This is what happens when a metal dental implant post or a dental implant screw breaks.

Dental Implant Complications|Bone loss around dental implants

Jaw bone holds a dental implant and the dental work connected on top of the dental implant. This bone must remain healthy after the dental implant is placed for the dental implant to last. Unfortunately, the bone surrounding a dental implant is sometimes lost.
There are several reasons for bone loss around a dental implant. If a dental implant patient does not keep the gums surrounding a dental implant clean, the gums can become inflamed. This inflammation can extend into the supporting bone and endanger the dental implant. If a dental implant is overloaded, this can cause loss of the bone surrounding the dental implant. In most cases, the bone loss starts at the top of the bone ( crest ) and progresses around the dental implant to form a saucer type defect.

In many cases bone loss around a dental implant can be treated with bone grafting after the original reason for the bone loss is successfully treated by yor implant dentist. The dental work on top of the dental implant is removed to give the dental implant a rest and the gum tissue is carefully treated to restore its health. The same dental work can often be replaced but in some cases, new dental work must be made.
Dental Implant Complications|Dental implant Inflammation:
A flame is part of a fire. Inflammation is when a tissue gets red, swollen, and usually hurts. With dental implants, this inflammation can be caused by infection or trauma. Inflammation is bad and it causes lots and lots of special defensive cells to migrate to this inflamed area. Inflammation can lead to bone loss and with dental implants, bone loss is a really bad thing. The supporting bone holds the dental implant in the jaw.

In all cases, the objective of the implant dentist is to eliminate inflammation. The way this is done is based on the cause of the inflammation around the dental implant. If it is due to a dental implant infection, then antibiotics and cleaning out the infected area is done. If the inflammation is due to trauma, then the dental work on top of the dental implant may be removed or adjusted so it does not bite as hard.

Dental Implant Complications|Dental implant Incision Line Opening:

An incision is when a dentist makes a cut in the gums using a scalpel. An opening is then made into the underlying bone in order to place a dental implant. The two edges of the cut gums are then sewed together and this is called suturing. An important goal that every dental implant dentist has it to completely close the opening after the dental implant is placed. However, this is not always possible and incision line opening can occur.

Sometimes the dental implant incision line opens and there are several reasons that this incision line opens. The underlying reason is usually that the area of bone exposed was so large that the amount of gums pulled up off of the jaw bone was too large to keep its blood supply. All human tissues, especially gums, need blood to live and when the blood is cut off, the tissue has problems and can even die ( necrosis ).

If bone grafting was done and the dental implant dentist put too much bone grafting material in the dental implant surgical site, the gum tissue could have been pulled too tightly when the suturing was done. This tightness cuts off the blood. A dental implant infection in the dental surgery site can also decrease the blood supply and result in incision line opening.