This morning my periodontist performed a torgue test on my front upper tooth dental implant and placed a healing cap over the implant. He said my implant was a success. This evening I removed my flipper and the area surrounding the healing cap is bleeding. Is this normal?
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Congratulations on your new implants! I wouldn't worry just yet. Its only been days since your implant surgery. Often you will get phantom pains on the adjacent teeth around the surgery area. Especially if the gums around that tooth were involved in the surgery. However, over the next...
Occasionally, the implant is exposed during the healing process and depending on the amount of exposure, should pose no real problem. The amount of exposure that I see in your photo would not concern me. The movement is another story however. If the movement is simply coming from a loose healing...