Can Cancer patients go for Dental Implant? - Dr. Rajeev Kumar G

Dental implants are very viable treatment options in cancer patients especially in someone undergoing extensive resection and radiotherapy. Nowadays we use implants to support the prosthesis because usually the damage is very extensive. The points to be noted is when and where the implants to be placed , normally it is done after 6 months after the surgery, taking into mind also the radiation that is given in that area which would influence the healing in terms of the fibrosis and the vascularity of the bone in that area. So if it has got a lot of radiation in that area then the healing of the implant will not occur and it will fail. Also we need to understand if the prosthesis if it is going to be very extensive, if the implants can bear the load of it. So that also takes into account. So that is a factor that comes when it comes to the loading of the implant, which normally is delayed in any treatment of cancer patients. Also we need to see the amount of radiation that is given in that area of it is very high then the quality of bone will definitely not be higher for dental implants and we also need you see in what time this is done. Normally dental implants are placed after 6 months after the surgery in that area and we also need to see the extent of the damage is that when we are loading the implant, we also have to delay it because the immediate loading can also cause the failure of the implant.