Dental Implant Failure & Salvage – Waco, TX
Saving Your Failing Dental Implant
Often known as the gold standard of tooth replacement, dental implants provide a wide range of advantages for improving your bite while rebuilding your smile. Still, while this treatment boasts a success rate of 95% or more, there’s a very rare chance that they can fail later on. Fortunately, our team can provide dental implant salvage treatment in Waco to save your new pearly whites. Keep reading to learn more about why titanium posts can fail and how we can help fix the issue! Feel free to call our office today if you wish to schedule an appointment.
Why Do Dental Implants Fail?
Although dental implant failure isn’t common, the biggest culprit for it is peri-implantitis. This is a kind of periodontal infection that surrounds the gums and connective tissues that hold the titanium posts in place. Without treatment, the disease can then attack and destroy the structures supporting your implants, leading to failure.
Failed osseointegration can also cause your metal post to fail later on, as the fusion of the implant to your jawbone may not have occurred properly. This can sometimes happen due to physical trauma, excessive pressure on the implant(s), or problems with your body’s ability to heal. Other reasons for failure can also be accidental injury or medical conditions like diabetes, osteoporosis, and oral cancer.
Symptoms of Failed Dental Implants
Dental implant failure can happen at any time, regardless if it’s been years after the placement surgery or merely several weeks. Here are some of the indications that your new tooth isn’t working:
- Strange or abnormal discomfort or pain around the implant
- Swelling, bleeding, pus, or other symptoms of infection
- A loose dental implant
- Trouble biting or chewing with your implant(s)
How Dental Implant Salvage Works
If you’re struggling with unusual complications with your dental implant, our team will want to look over your situation to determine the underlying problem. Once we’ve detected the main issue, we’ll walk you through the different methods for fixing your tooth. If the failure is due to infection, we’ll need to perform deep cleaning and provide antibiotics to fight or control it. If it’s because of failed osseointegration, you may have to undergo bone grafting to ensure your jawbone is strong and dense enough to support the metal posts. We’ll work closely with you so that we can get you back to enjoying your renewed smile again.