Year: 2023

If you have damaged, decayed, or missing teeth, this can generate several problems for you. It can be harder to eat food, your smile is compromised, you might feel pain, and overall, it can negatively impact your self-esteem. Of course, you have many solutions to these problems, which include veneers, dentures, and whitening. However, you will find a dentist will tell you the most effective solution is dental implants.

We are not saying any of the other solutions are poor options. Still, simply that dental implants offer the most advantages. They are a long-term solution rather than a temporary one. They have also proved extremely popular with those patients who have opted for dental implants over any other way of resolving their dental issues. Here, in some detail, are four reasons dental implants are so popular.

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One of the most essential elements of dental implant treatment is the period after the procedure when you go home and then spend the next weeks and months caring for your new dental implants. This often has many patients ask us a series of questions about the aftercare of their dental implants, which we are only too happy to answer.

The reason dentists from Dental O So Gentle want to make sure that every patient knows as much about the aftercare of their dental implants as possible is that this ensures that the chances of any issues occurring are all but eliminated. With that in mind, and to highlight some of the more common questions we get asked, here are those three common questions with their answers.

What Is The Best Way For Me To Care For My New Dental Implants?

The most obvious answer to this might seem to be that you should care for your dental implants the same way you cared for your teeth before, but that brings a significant problem to light. The reason people have dental implants is to replace missing teeth, and often, it is precisely because they did not care for their teeth before that has led to a situation where their unhealthy teeth were falling out.

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