Aftercare Advice for Dental Implants
To ensure your dental implants give you the best results that you can enjoy for the longest possible time, you will need to care for them. With a mixture of care at home that you can do yourself, and professional attention from your dentist, you will get the best out of your implants and if you have had them when you are in middle age, they will last you a lifetime, if you do.
Making those implants last
They look and feel like your natural teeth and caring for them will be much the same. Good and regular oral hygiene is absolutely necessary to ensure that no infections can get established around your implants. If you carry out cleaning and hygiene well and visit the dentist and hygienist on a regular basis, those implants may turn out to be the best investment you have ever made.
Different methods of cleaning for different kinds of implant
There are different types of dental implants and they might need to be cleaned and cared for differently. Your dentist will give you advice and recommend which products will work best with your implants to keep them in the best condition.
Products that will be suitable for your implants
A brush that has an angled neck will make it easier to clean the abutments of the implant. A slim bush head will be able to get into the narrowest of areas and achieve the cleaning that you need. A slim brush head will also reach into very narrow areas. Soft, end-rounded filaments will always be best to carry out a gentler clean.
Using Inter-dental Brushing
Using inter-dental brushes will make it easy to clean the sides of your implant. Ask your hygienist or dentist to recommend the best type of brush after your implant treatment. When you clean your implants use a to and fro motion over each implant. The inter-dental brushes should have wire that is plastic coated so that it is safe to use around the implants. An angled brush is particularly useful for getting in around the implants.
A Specialist Implant Brush
An implant brush is specially made with a bush head that is extra narrow and is ideal for cleaning the implants on the outside surfaces.
Bridge & Implant Floss
You might also want to get some bridge and implant floss that is specially made to offer effective and efficient cleaning for bridges and implants. There is a stiff thread with which the floss can be inserted and then moved back and forward in the normal way to reach the areas in between the implants just as you would floss your natural teeth. A single tufted brush is going to be ideal for getting into the critical areas where the implant is placed in the gums and where bacteria can flourish.
Caring for your implants properly, will give you a lifetime of trouble free dental health. For more details please contact a Dental Implant Clinic in London.
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