Dental Implants: Q&A
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How Long Can I Wait Before Getting a Dental Implant?
I need to extract a tooth as soon as possible due to infection. I would like to know how long I can wait to get an implant. I need to extract the tooth and have a bone graft done since I have some bone loss. How long can I wait for the implant? I was told I can get it as soon as 4-6 months. However, I would like to wait a little longer (as long as possible) so that I can save up enough to get the actual implant done. I do not want to have bone loss occur and then have to go through it again.
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Mila789
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Waitng to Implant
I would not wait longer than 12 months to implant as the area of bone will atrophy and then you might not be able to have an implant without having more bone grafting. In addition, teeth work together as partners and when one tooth is removed the other teeth can shift in response. The teeth shifting that can occur varies from person to person but the teeth can shift and make the implant restoration difficult or impossible. Once the infected tooth is removed and...
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Atlanta Cosmetic Dentist
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I would stick to the conservative option.
I would recommend the extraction and the bone graft, but I would no wait longer than 6-8 months to get the implant because basically there is no case waiting longer. Just remember the antibiotics are imperative to take. if you place the implant immediately after the extraction (in your case, with an infection) there is a higher risk that you can lose it because you currently have an infection.
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Extraction and implant time line
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Once tooth is extracted and grafted, I usually wait about 5-6 months before I place an implant. Although if it is longer, it is often fine. The graft tends to preserve the bone and stays stable for much later.
Dr. Kazemi
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When can one get implants after extraction
Usually we prefer to extract a tooth, and place bone graft and get back in there to place the implant 3-6 month later. Now this is not a one size fit all, and if your tooth is infected, you cannot even place the bone graft in successfully when the socket is full of puss.
So if your tooth is infected extract ASAP. the longer you keep the infected tooth in , the more bone loss happens , the more bone graft you need, and the less success for implant.
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WAITING TO PLACE IMPLANT.
It depends on the severity of the infection, the location of the tooth and the condotion of your health. Not knowing all these prarameters, i can only give some broad guidelines. If the infection is vsevere and broad and there is a lot of pus and exudates, it may not be prudent to do the bone grafting on the day of extraction as the success of the will decrease because of the highly acidic environment. sometimes it is better to wait six to eight weeks and go back in...
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Houston Cosmetic Dentist
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When to get implant after extraction?
The modern protocol with implant placement in anterior aesthetic area and posterior sites (molar teeth) does not recommend immediate placement after tooth extraction. It is never performed in the infection sites eather. Delayed implant placement is recommended due to better control and predictability of the aesthetic outcome of the implant- it`s more predictable to place implant exactly where it belongs after the gum and bone are stable, without guessing where the bone will end up...
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Wait for Implant
There is 2 ways to do this procedure. If the infection is not too severe maybe the dentist could do a post-extraction implant and do the bone grafting and implant immediately. I do this lots at my clinic and have had great success.
However the conservative approach would be extracting the tooth and doing the bone grafting. From this you could wait as long as you need to get the implant usually up too a year.
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