Dental cleanings are important for everyone, but especially for patients with dental implants. Implants are a valuable investment in long-term oral health and beauty. Protecting the investment you made in your dental implants is an important part of ensuring the longevity of your beautiful smile. Professional dental hygiene is the way to accomplish this.
Cleaning Frequency
Following your dental implant surgery, it is recommended that you have your teeth professionally cleaned every three months in the first year. Following the first year, the recommendation is to have them cleaned every 3-6 months.
Why do your teeth have to be cleaned so often? The gum tissue surrounding an implant requires specialized care to maintain optimal health and provide a lasting, protective bond with the replacement teeth. In order to insure that the bond stays strong, a comprehensive cleaning is important.
In addition to regular cleaning appointments, your dental implant dentist may also remove the implant crowns every few years for additional cleaning, then they will re-attach them during the same appointment.
Tools and Technology
The hygienist will use state-of-the-art tools to gently clean your dental implant restorations, as well as your natural teeth. Removing plaque, tartar, and hardened food particles deters decay and prevents gum disease, a destructive bacterial infection that can compromise the longevity of dental implants and lead to decreased oral and overall health.
With appropriate cleaning your dental implants will not only look their best, but they will also last longer.
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Dr. Lee Fitzgerald is a Dallas Dental Implant Dentist and a graduate of the University of Texas and the Baylor College of Dentistry. He has practiced cosmetic and implant dentistry for over 25 years and is one of Dallas’s top implant dentists.
Dr. Fitzgerald also lectures and mentors young dentists interested in advanced implant and cosmetic dentistry, and currently practices implant dentistry in Plano, Texas at his Dental Implant Center. He is the former President of the Dallas County Dental Society, and Associate Fellow of the American Academy of Implant Dentistry, a Fellow of the International Congress of Oral Implantologists, a Fellow of the Academy of General Dentistry, a Fellow International College of Dentists, and a sustaining member of the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry.