Failing & Ailing Implants - Temecula, CA
What Happens When Implants Fail And How To Avoid It
The Unintended Consequences Of Choosing The Cheapest Option
For years now, dental implants have been the premier method of teeth replacement. The stability and dependability of dental implants attracts hundreds of thousands of patients each and every year. With the rapid advancements in dental technology making it easier than ever for general dentists and other professions who, traditionally, wouldn’t place dental implants, to do just that. The problem that very few people talk about is that dental implants can, in fact, fail. With more and more doctors performing implantations each year, implants are failing at a higher percentage year-over-year.
Choosing a doctor to place your dental implants based solely off of the price they are able provide service at may very well have some unintended consequences. The consequences that are often overlooked include emotional and financial stress as well as the necessity for a re-investment of time to fix the issue. Once implants begin to ail or fail, the process to fix them is a lengthy and expensive one, making it that much more important to choose the right doctor the first time, even if they cost more up-front. Before choosing your doctor, it is important to know how much experience they have placing dental implants and what the process looks like. Otherwise, you could be running the risk of an inexperienced doctor placing implants that will cost you at least twice as much in the long run.
Treating an Ailing Implant Before Complete Failure
An ailing implant on its way to complete failure needs to be treated immediately in order to save both the bone and the implant before it’s too late. There are only a couple of reasons why an implant would be able to degrade to the point of failure and those are generally a result of the inexperience of the doctor performing the procedure.
Treating an ailing implant before it fails completely requires a lengthy treatment to ensure that the bone has been adequately re-grafted and healed before placing the implant back into the bone. Often times, incorrect placement of the implant is what causes the implant to fail in the first place and if not treated correctly, the same will happen causing more emotional and financial stress.
Dental Implant Disasters
How Dental Implant Failure Affects you
When a dental implant has failed completely, the result is quite literally the worst-case scenario. The only way to solve the problem is to completely remove the abutment, perform another smile preview, regraft the area, let it heal, and start the entire process over again. More than likely, you won’t want to go back to the same doctor who performed the initial flawed operation, and as you are already aware by the time this happens, the process is neither quick nor inexpensive.
At the end of the day, the doctor you entrust to perform your dental implantation surgery matters, make the decision wisely. Dr. Whitworth and his team of experts are uniquely equipped to fix any implant issues caused by a flawed surgery from a less experienced doctor. He also uses surgical methods that prevent the issues that cause implant failure from arising later down the road by performing the operation himself.
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