Dental Implant Care Guide

Dental implants are made to be long-lasting, and a repaired smile can increase your confidence when making new contacts with the proper maintenance. Your new functional teeth can improve your relationship with food.

This complete affordable dental implant care manual focuses on three critical areas to take care of dental implants:

• Guidelines for the weeks and days following dental implant surgery
• Suggestions for lifelong maintenance to keep dental implants hygienic and clean
• General advice on complete mouth dental implant maintenance

The days and weeks following a procedure are the most critical time frames for providing successful dental implant care. During this time, your body works hard to mend the gums and bone tissues at the implant sites. In addition, the implant Is currently integrating with your jaw. The bone and implants must first fuse for the implant to provide a reliable base and support for your prosthesis.

Following the Dallas dental implant procedure, recovery usually requires 3-5 days, even before most patients report feeling normal.

Here are some tips from us on caring for your brand-new implant and veneers during this delicate healing period.

• NEVER pull on the stitches: Allow stitches to fall out or disintegrate naturally. Any stitches you might have will come out or disintegrate by themselves within 7 to 10 days unless your medical coordinator has specified otherwise. Never try to take out your stitches.
• Use ice: You can apply ice to the afflicted facial areas if oedema does happen. Use ice for two days after the surgery, twenty minutes on and Twenty minutes off. By the third day, you can alternately apply ice and heat to the sore muscles.
• NEVER chew ice: Only apply ice to the face to minimize swelling. Never chew on ice; you should never place it in your mouth.
• Be careful: The healing process might be hampered by something as basic as excessively scrutinizing the surgery site. You risk rupturing the still-healing surgery site by pushing on your cheekbones and widening your mouth widely.
• Use warm, salt water to rinse: After the operation, wait 24 hours before starting salt water rinses. The area needs to recover over time. Again, use extra caution, especially in and around where the implant was surgically placed. Do not immediately brush the surgical site along the gum line surrounding the implant. Avoid twirling or spitting while brushing your teeth. You can take a sip of water to help rinse the mouthwash out of your mouth. Keep drinking the water. Open the mouth and release the water out over the sink. After that, wipe your lips to complete the process.
• Cleaning gently is a good idea. You may clean your teeth on the morning of the dental implant procedure. Be very delicate. Use a toothbrush with gentle bristles. 
• NOT too much cleaning: Overcleaning is a typical over-care problem that can be as terrible or even worse than inadequate cleaning. Continuously picking at a hurting location won’t speed up the healing process. These obsessions and compulsions increase the likelihood of problems worsening, ultimately turning a minor problem into a significant one.