Implant Maintenance—Key to Long Term Success
To protect your investment, regular maintenance is imperative. Long term success is your goal as well as ours. We have to work together as a team to keep your implant in the best possible condition.
Daily Maintenance—Home Care Protocol
Periodic Office Visit
Implant treatment involves many connected parts, and they are under constant force from chewing, talking, swallowing, or even night grinding. Implant is similar to a car that is being driven 24 hours a day. With time, some parts may get loose. Besides mechanical damage to your implants, bacterial plaque may also damage the seal between your gum and the implant. Therefore periodic office maintenance visits are very important.
During the maintenance visit, we thoroughly clean all connecting parts of implants, check and fix any screw loosening, remove overdentures to inspect the integrity of all components, replace the nylon inserts if needed.
We recommend 2-4 visits per year to maintain your implants.