How do I take care of my immediate dental implants?

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Don't smoke, not even a single stick. Secondly, keep meticulous oral hygiene.

But having said that, don't over brush the area because if you overbrush the surgical site, it can destroy or disturb the wound.

When you have a wound, you want to be very gentle when brushing around the area of the surgery but still you need to brush to keep good oral hygiene.

Thirdly, take all of your medication religiously: all the antibiotics, antiseptic mouth rinse, sometimes even prescribed probiotics. All these will help and aid healing.

Lastly, please do not bite the implant. don't stress the implant with any kind of biting forces, don't load the implant with any kind of pressure. leave it alone, literally zero loads, zero pressure.

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How do I know when I need dental implants?

I do a lot of root canal treatment and to make a natural tooth look good, especially your front tooth, is quite easy. To make a front implant look good is extremely difficult. You’ll need multiple surgeries, not only to place the implants but also to graft the gums and all that. If the patient is quite young, meaning in their 20s or 30s, our skeleton keeps growing so the rest of the teeth will keep moving down but the implant doesn’t move. So when you hit your 50s you’ll have this cosmetic problem that’s very difficult to fix.

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Are the immediate dental implants stored in the clinic?

No, I don’t have a supply of these individual teeth. And the reason why is because we can manufacture it differently. Everyone's teeth are different. For example, your teeth could be big, mine could be small, some people's teeth can be long, or broad. Everyone's teeth are different, so the beauty of computer-guided planning and CADCAM technology is that through all these scans and software we can actually make immediate temporary crowns that will be in the exact same shape to blend in with the rest of the teeth.

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