An experienced dentist, James A. Vito, DMD, provides high-quality dental care to patients at his own practice in Pennsylvania. Although he provides a wide range of general and advanced dental care services, James A. Vito, DMD, is particularly knowledgeable about dental implants. He holds two board certifications in implant dentistry.
Patients who receive dental implants need to take care of them. Good implant maintenance is similar to routine dental care.
Implant recipients should brush and floss their teeth and implants at least twice a day, ideally after meals with a toothpaste that is minimally abrasive. Patients can use an antimicrobial mouth rinse and plaque removal aids between brushings. Professional dental visits should also be scheduled regularly.
When dental implants are not properly cared for, recipients are at risk of developing infections. As with teeth, implants have two stages of problems: mucositis and peri-implantitis.
Bleeding around the implant is a symptom of mucositis. However, when mucositis is caught early, it can be treated and even reversed.
If the problem is not fixed, it leads to peri-implantitis, which is bone loss. Bone loss is irreversible and can lead to the removal of the implant and even advanced bone loss.
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