According to current publication by the Spanish Society for Periodontics and Osseointegration (SEPA) Spain is the European country where are placed more dental implants.This sort of dental prosthesis help to resolve aesthetic and functional. It is extremely important to give them all the information necessary by post. The patient need to know how mantain a good status of its prosthesis dental to avoid infections, bone loss or some cases implant loss, without forgetting to enlarge the lifetime of prosthesis dental.
It is necessary patient adopts these easy tips to guarantee the success in the dental treatment along lifetime:
1. Visit regularly the specialist to test the good status of your dental prosthesis and follow the recomendations.
2. Maintain an excellent oral healthcare is essential to avoid infections and illness like perimplantitis, loss of bone and others.
3. Avoid smoking. According to several scientific publications about them they agree smoking is even more detrimental to patient who have implant prosthesis. The implant becomes dark faster, slow healing…
4. Maintain a healthy and balanced diet, during the first weeks after scarring period. Following these tips are useful to avoid implant loss and help a healing faster.
5. Remove bad habits is necessary like biting nails, opening bottles, cutting materials with the mouth is dangerous and injurious. This kind of bad habits do not help for a succesful intervention.
Paraphrasing the doctor Branemark: “The future of implant depends on the planification detailed in each work, correct position, higienic design and care from patient”. Dental implants are an inversion that we should take care during our whole life.