What are dental implants? How can it help in treating facial trauma?

What are dental implants? How can it help in treating facial trauma?

Facial trauma can impact not just your physical appearance but also your oral health and overall physical, emotional, and mental well-being. Accidents, sports injuries, falls and other unforeseen incidents can result in facial injuries, including damage to your teeth and jaw.

Fortunately, dental implants can help repair facial trauma. Your doctor and the Cleveland Implant Institute care team can work together to restore your facial structure and smile.

What is facial trauma?

Facial trauma includes a wide range of injuries, from minor cuts and bruises to severe fractures of the jawbone and tooth loss. These injuries can affect not only your appearance but also your ability to speak, eat, and even breathe properly.

Tooth loss is one of the most common results of facial trauma. When a tooth is knocked out or damaged beyond repair, it leaves a gap that impacts your smile. This can lead to further oral health issues if left untreated.

How dental implants restore facial damage

Dental implants are a popular solution to replace missing teeth. They are particularly valuable in facial trauma situations. Here’s how they can help: ●

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Restores function: Dental implants are designed to function just like natural teeth. They provide stability and support for biting, chewing, and speaking. This ensures that you can regain full functionality of your mouth after a traumatic injury.

Preserves jawbone density: When a tooth is lost, the jawbone in that area can begin to deteriorate over time. Dental implants, unlike traditional bridges or dentures, stimulate the jawbone and prevent bone loss. This helps maintain the integrity of your facial structure.

Improves appearance: Facial trauma often results in visible gaps in your smile. Dental implants not only replace missing teeth but also look and feel like natural teeth. They blend seamlessly with your remaining teeth, helping to restore your smile and confidence.

Long-term solution: Dental implants are a durable, long-lasting solution. With proper care and maintenance, they can last a lifetime.

Better oral health: Dental implants don’t require the alteration of adjacent teeth, like dental bridges. This means that your natural teeth can remain untouched, promoting better overall oral health.

After-Surgery Dental Implant Care The days and weeks following a procedure are the most critical for proper dental implant care.

During this time, your body is working hard to repair gum and bone tissue at the implant sites.

This is also when the implant is undergoing osseointegration with your jaw. The implant needs time to fuse with the bone in order to provide strong support for your prosthesis.

Recovery time after the New Teeth Now procedure, when most people report feeling back to normal, is usually around 3–5 days.

Following are our recommendations for caring for your new implants and bridges during this sensitive period of recovery.

Do NOT pull stitches. Allow stitches to dissolve or fall out on their own. Unless your treatment coordinator has mentioned otherwise, any stitches you may have will fall out or dissolve on their own within 7–10 days. Never attempt to remove stitches on your own.

Use ice. If the swelling does occur, you can ice the affected areas of the face. Use ice for 20 minutes on and 20 minutes off on the first 2 days after the procedure. By the third day, you can use ice and heat, alternating applications for dental implants to reduce muscle stiffness.

Do not chew ice. When applying ice to reduce swelling, only apply it to the face. Do not place it in your mouth, and absolutely never chew on ice.

Avoid overcare. Something as simple as over-inspecting the surgical site can disrupt the healing process. When you pull at your cheeks and stretch your mouth open, you risk tearing at that surgical area that’s trying to heal.

Rinse with warm salt water. Wait for 24 hours after the procedure, then you can begin salt water rinses.

Practice gentle cleaning. You may brush your teeth on the day of the New Teeth Now procedure. Be very gentle. Use a soft-bristle toothbrush. This area needs time to heal. And again, be extra gentle, especially around the surgical site of the implant. Do not brush the surgical site at the direct gum line surrounding the implant. Do not do any swishing or spitting when cleaning your teeth. You may put water in your mouth to help rinse the toothpaste out.

Don’t spit the water out. Open your mouth over the sink and let the water fall out. Then, wipe your mouth and be done.

Clean the gap with a Monoject syringe. As the gums heal, a gap is likely to form between the implant bridge and your gums. You will use a curved-tip irrigation syringe to gently wash food out of this gap. After 5–6 weeks, once gums have fully recovered, you will be able to switch to using a water flosser instead of the syringe, for a more thorough cleaning.

Long-Term Dental Implant Care New Teeth Now provides patients with prosthetic teeth that are designed to last a lifetime. With routine maintenance and proper care, your new teeth can be the permanent oral health solution you’ve always wanted.

Some of the advice you followed for your after-surgical care also applies here. Let’s go over what’s different about long-term care. Fortunately, there are much fewer long-term care tips. As many of our patients have⁠, we think you’ll find that caring for full mouth dental implants is simple and straightforward.

Invest in a good water flosser. These simple devices are miracle makers when it comes to getting rid of buildup from hard-to-reach nooks and crevices around your dental implants and bridges. For full mouth implants, there is a slight space between the bridge and the gums that can collect artifacts while eating. A water flosser can gently massage away this buildup with a massaging jet of water.

Quit smoking, once and for all. We said it above, but it’s worth repeating. Smoking is terrible for your oral health. Smokers are at a much higher risk of infection. As we know, they’re also at a higher risk of oral health complications including tooth loss and, similarly, implant failure. With no other behavioral changes, one of the best ways to improve the health and longevity of your implants is by kicking that smoking habit, once and for all.

Do NOT skip your cleanings. Even with prosthetic teeth, you will need routine cleanings. Oral hygiene remains a priority for dental implants. If you are a New Teeth Now patient, a

professional dental hygienist will remove your teeth for cleanings and review your oral health situation with you. This is the only time that your teeth will be removed, as they are otherwise fixed to the implants.

Wear your mouthguard as directed. If you’ve been advised to wear a mouthguard at night to address wear and tear from excessive teeth grinding and clenching, please do so.

Do NOT chew ice. Once everything has healed, it’s still unacceptable to chew ice, even with teeth made of zirconia.

Come see us if you’re having issues. Don’t ignore something if it feels wrong. We can take a look, even if it’s just for your peace of mind. Also, please do not attempt to correct an issue with a dental implant on your own. Operating on yourself from home is incredibly unsanitary and dangerous. Googling a DIY solution is asking for trouble and additional complications and expenses are basically guaranteed.

At Bangalore Dental Solutions Our mission at Bangalore Dental Solutions is to make your smile perfect, and we do so with the help of the very latest dental innovations and techniques which are at par with international standards.

Around the world tends to be on the higher side. Compared to that, we at Bangalore Dental Implants provide you with dental implants which are at par with international standards but at the same time reduce your cost by at least 70%.

Dr. Ramya MDS, one of the best dental implant specialist in Bangalore, a gold medalist, and someone who has extensive experience as an implantologist, is the perfect choice for you if you are interested in the procedure of dental implants.