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Dental Implant Care Tips for a Lasting, Healthy Smile

Enhance your oral health with expert dental implant care tips from Health Chakra. Explore essential insights to ensure a lasting smile!

Dental Implant Care Tips for a Healthy Smile

When a person suffers tooth loss, the number one solution they are offered is Dental Implants. Implants help you get back control of your mouth, making your smile as confident as ever. The latest and affordable dental implants available in the market are as real as the original teeth, thus helping you chew or smile like before. 

Nonetheless, implants should be cared for like natural teeth. It is important to learn how one should keep their implants clean for long-term usage and unruffled appearance. Falling short of maintaining implants can lead to major complications, inviting a wide range of oral problems. Being negligent of oral health in such conditions can lead to bone loss, pain, inflammation, discomfort and peri-implantitis. To ease up your post-implant recovery, here are some crucial tips that one must follow:


1.   Replace your regular tooth-brush with the one that has softer bristles

Avoid using toothbrushes with hard bristles. They can harm the enamel and are especially damaging to dental implants. Hard-bristled toothbrushes can easily scratch the surface of implants, causing irreparable damage. After obtaining dental implants, it's crucial to only brush with soft-bristled nylon toothbrushes that won't harm your tooth enamel.


2.   Avert Peri-Implantitis

Peri-implantitis refers to implant-related gum disease. It turns your gums red and swells them up, much like periodontal disease. They might bleed when you brush or floss, becoming too sensitive to touch. To avoid peri-implantitis, you must adhere to a strict oral hygiene routine to keep them clean.


3.   Make sure to floss every day

It is crucial to form a regular habit of flossing once you get the implants. It eliminates the chance of developing plaque, which builds up around implants if not cared for properly. As flossing helps remove the food particles accumulating between teeth, it keeps your implants plaque-free, which is not possible by brushing alone.

But keep in mind to use implant-friendly floss. One should only floss with unwaxed tape or other implant-specific floss.


4.   Exclude hot, hard and sticky foods from your diet

As the implants may get broken or damaged due to hard foods, you must strictly avoid such items. Parallel to that, foods with gooey and sticky textures can get stuck around the implants, causing damage instead of healing.

People with implants must refrain from eating pani puri, samosa, ice, hard candies, apples, carrots, potato chips, crusty bread, sweets and dried fruits. In addition to that, hot liquids such as tea, coffee, hot water and soups must also be avoided. Consuming hot liquids may distort the shape of implants, creating possibilities for further damage.


5.   Give up smoking

Smoking has a terrible impact on your oral health. Smoking puts your health at risk of getting numerous conditions, from tooth decay to cancer. Smoking significantly affects the recovery process after dental implants. Additionally, the gums around the implant become inflamed and weakened. It also makes your implants yellowish. 


6.   Keep the alcohol consumption in moderation

The sugar content in alcohol is so high that it encourages tooth deterioration in teeth that are healthy. However, it also poses a greater risk to dental implants. It not only makes the plaque accumulation faster but also cuts down the recovery speed post-dental implant surgery.

To avoid such harmful conditions, it is necessary to put alcohol consumption on hold for at least 6 months post-dental implant treatment.

Remembering the above-given practices is essential for recovering from Dental Implant Surgery. Making the right changes at the right time helps, but you can always opt for a professional consultation if in any doubt. Get the ideal oral health guidance from the best dentists in town. Contact Health Chakra for Affordable Dental Implants in Pune. 

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