Who can get dental implants — advice from a dentist

A lost tooth caus­es not only aes­thet­ic prob­lems, but also neg­a­tive­ly affects the struc­ture of the oral cav­i­ty. What is fraught with the absence of den­tal implants, and is it safe to put them, said den­tist Iri­na Rubl­e­va in an inter­view with 5‑tv.ru.

Is it dangerous to put dental implants

Accord­ing to the den­tist, den­tal implan­ta­tion is an absolute­ly safe pro­ce­dure, which today is com­pared with the set­ting of a fill­ing or crown. The main fea­ture is to place the implant on time before it is too late.

“If you have lost a tooth, then there is a one-stage implan­ta­tion. And if there was inflam­ma­tion of the bone tis­sue, then the patient needs to wait between treat­ments. At the lat­est — place the implant in six months”, Iri­na Rubl­e­va warned.

What will happen to the jaw without a dental implant

The spe­cial­ist believes that oth­er­wise the adja­cent teeth will grad­u­al­ly move. Then the patient may expe­ri­ence a defor­mi­ty of the bite, the side of chew­ing will be dis­turbed. This con­tributes to mus­cu­lar and facial asym­me­tries.

Changes occur in the den­toalve­o­lar sys­tem with­out a tooth, says the doc­tor. With the change of chew­ing side, facial asym­me­try will appear. It’s like if you swing only your right or left hand in the gym.

How to place an implant

Since implants have been car­ried out for more than 50 years, den­tists can eval­u­ate the effec­tive­ness of this pro­ce­dure. Patients who decide on implants “wear” these struc­tures for decades.

The den­tist warns: the most impor­tant thing is to choose a good, com­pe­tent spe­cial­ist who will com­pe­tent­ly car­ry out all stages of the oper­a­tion. Then the implant will serve you for decades.

What are implants

Accord­ing to their pur­pose, implants can be divid­ed into two groups:

• intraosseous (installed in bone tis­sue, almost do not cause com­pli­ca­tions);
• extraosseous (installed in the gum or perios­teum, more often used for tem­po­rary fix­a­tion).

Extraosseous are divid­ed depend­ing on the place where the den­tist installs the implants. Their func­tions are also dif­fer­ent.

For exam­ple, intra­mu­cos­al struc­tures are installed in the recess­es of the gums. They are cho­sen for defects in the palate. Sta­bi­liza­tion implants are fixed on a liv­ing root and are used to strength­en a liv­ing tooth. And sub­pe­riosteal implants are fixed in the perios­teum.

Intraosseous implants are also divid­ed accord­ing to the type of fix­a­tion in the bone. It can be:

• root (most often used in den­tistry, but their instal­la­tion requires a suf­fi­cient amount of bone tis­sue that can be increased);
• basal (installed in a sol­id basal bone for fix­a­tion, in this case, the implant does not need bone tis­sue for instal­la­tion);
• zygo­mat­ic (fixed in the zygo­mat­ic bone of the upper jaw, which is not sub­ject to atro­phy).

Experts note that some implants have con­traindi­ca­tions, so the type of struc­ture to be installed is pri­mar­i­ly deter­mined by the den­tist.

Contraindications for implant placement

Spe­cial­ists iden­ti­fy sev­er­al dis­eases in which the instal­la­tion of implants is impos­si­ble. It:

• autoim­mune dis­eases;
• brux­ism;
• dia­betes mel­li­tus in the decom­pen­sat­ed stage;
• osteo­poro­sis;
• impaired tis­sue repair;
• malig­nant neo­plasms;
• chron­ic renal or hepat­ic insuf­fi­cien­cy;
• blood clot­ting dis­or­ders;
• tuber­cu­lo­sis;
• aller­gic reac­tions.

With these dis­eases, it is impos­si­ble to car­ry out the pro­ce­dure under any cir­cum­stances. There are also rel­a­tive con­traindi­ca­tions — after their elim­i­na­tion, a per­son can go to the den­tist for implants. These include:

• mal­oc­clu­sion;
• inflam­ma­to­ry process­es in the oral cav­i­ty;
• caries;
• peri­odon­ti­tis;
• poor oral hygiene;
• tar­tar;
• preg­nan­cy;
• viral infec­tions;
• deple­tion of the body.

In this case, it is nec­es­sary to treat rel­a­tive con­traindi­ca­tions and then con­tact the den­tist for the instal­la­tion of addi­tion­al struc­tures.