Why Wait for Dental Implant Surgery at Yeongdeungpo-gu Office Station Dental Clinic? ft. Socket Preservation

Hello, this is Kim Minyoung.

There are people who are told that they can no longer keep using their natural teeth because of periodontal disease or cavities.

When the function of a natural tooth is lost, it can become difficult to continue with daily life, so a method to rebuild it is needed.

In most cases, people think of [implants]. That is why today, at Yeongdeungpo-gu Office Station Dental Clinic, I would like to share some related information.

If you were to have a tooth extracted and receive treatment, what would you worry about most? There may be many answers, but I think the most common question is about the treatment period. The reason is that once a tooth is extracted, the inconvenience that follows is significant.

It affects eating, speaking, and even appearance, so the inconvenience caused by its absence is quite large.

That is why people hope the prosthetic tooth comes in as soon as possible and performs its function fully. To quickly restore the role of a natural tooth, the treatment period needs to be shortened.

For this reason, many people prefer [immediate placement after extraction],

but from the standpoint of a periodontics specialist, rather than quickly placing a fixture screw without considering the oral environment,

it is better to select cases in which immediate placement is difficult and allow time for healing.

Let’s take a closer look while going over the material prepared by Yeongdeungpo-gu Office Station Dental Clinic.

1. Why is a healing period necessary?

The usual reason a tooth is judged difficult to keep using is that the oral environment is poor, leading to disease.

There are many cases in which a tooth is severely decayed, or the gums are so inflamed that bone loss is also observed.

A fixture screw, much like a natural tooth, is supported by being placed into the bone called the alveolar bone.

Therefore, for healing of the fixture to proceed smoothly, a sufficient amount of bone tissue must be maintained and the bone quality must be good.

If the bone quality is too soft and the amount of alveolar bone is insufficient, recovery will be slow and the success rate will decrease accordingly. That is why, above all else, a favorable placement environment is necessary to secure the success rate and stability of the implant.

It may be easier to understand if we compare it to a tree. Just as fertile ground creates an environment where a tree can grow well,

the oral environment must be stable for a long period of time so that problems do not develop with the implant.

Let me explain in detail about the related information, [socket preservation], at Yeongdeungpo-gu Office Station Dental Clinic.

2. socket preservation After a tooth is extracted, bone is naturally lost over time.

Through biological remodeling, both width and height decrease,

and especially during the first three months, the greatest changes occur.

According to several studies looked at by Yeongdeungpo-gu Office Station Dental Clinic, it was found that about 30% was lost overall over three months.

If sufficient bone tissue is not secured due to changes in the alveolar bone after extraction,

it can be difficult to secure the alveolar bone and this may cause difficulties during the placement process. When such problems are a concern, one option that can be performed is socket preservation.

Yeongdeungpo-gu Office Station Dental Clinic will briefly explain this.

After a tooth is extracted, by placing a bone graft material in the area where the tooth used to be,

this is a procedure that helps maintain the volume of the alveolar bone.

Then the bone graft particles are not absorbed and become surrounded by new bone, making ridge preservation possible.

3. Related case

After extraction of one front tooth with a poor prognosis, the granulation tissue that had formed due to inflammation was removed.

Because it was judged difficult to place an implant right away, healing was needed,

but it was still considered difficult to recover without additional measures, so socket preservation needed to be applied.

After taking measures to maintain the volume by filling the extraction site with artificial bone powder,

a healing period of about 4 months was carried out.

As a result, as shown in the photos from Yeongdeungpo-gu Office Station Dental Clinic,

enough bone tissue needed for placement was secured, so the implant could be completed stably.

To stabilize the implant, appropriate additional measures must be taken and then healing should begin, so that enough bone can be secured along with improvement in the oral environment.

Since sufficient time is needed for this process to be carried out first,

the treatment period may become somewhat longer.

Right now, it may feel inconvenient because it takes a long time until completion,

but if we think about the long term, I believe securing stability is better than shortening the time.

I hope the information shared by Yeongdeungpo-gu Office Station Dental Clinic was helpful, and I will end the post here.

This was Kim Minyoung. Thank you.