Can a Dental Implant become loose? Causes & Remedy - Dr. Deepa Jayashankar| Doctors' Circle

Dr. Deepa Jayashankar | Appointment booking number: 8088058704,8088052704
Consultant Prosthodontist & Implantologist | ToothFirm-Dental Care & Implant Center, Bengaluru
First of all you have to understand that a Dental Implant is a titanium screw which is put inside the patients jaw in order to give a prosthesis, as in a tooth or a denture so when an implant is drilled inside the bone, we will expect it to osseointegrate, that is it becomes a part of your own body, where new bone formation occurs in and around the implant so that it supports the prosthesis. So if it becomes loose, it is either it has not osseointegrated, secondly there is Peri-implantitis. That is there is infection of the tissues in and around the implants or simply because the bone just resorts in and around the implant because it couldn’t take the implant. There are many reasons for it. So most of the times, when you know the implant is moving or it feels a little awkward, immediately please visits your dentist. There are ways to tackle this problems. If it is in the initial micro movement or minimal movement stages, we just want and watch, we try and splint the provisional restoration that the implant is stabilized ad we try to check on the Peri-implantits and we try to clean up the infected tissue in and around and try to facilitate normal healing and if the implant is given a provisional restoration, most of the time the implant cannot take the load of the restoration and see if the implant can osseointegrate itself or we can give grafting. So if you feel your implant is moving visit your dentist. in certain cases where it is just not possible to restore , most of the times we see if there is a compromised scenario, or If the patient is a smoker and inspite of telling them many a times they do not listen to us , it can lead to a failure of implant.
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