- So let's talk about the truth about
dental implant treatment and does it hurt?
Or what part of the process actually hurts?
You see, I place a lot of dental implants every single year
and every single one of my patients,
I'll see them two weeks later,
where we'll have a review,
we'll take out any stitches,
we make sure everything's healing nicely,
and most importantly, I'm gonna ask them
what their experience was over that first two weeks.
And about 70 to 80% of my patients
will have a very low experience of pain.
Okay, that means it didn't really hurt them very much.
And well, the way I judge it,
is how many painkillers did they need to take.
So the vast majority of people will take
less than one painkiller that really suppress
how little discomfort there is afterwards.
Now, my goal is to always provide the best quality,
best looking tooth on a dental implant, right?
And that means sometimes we do a little bit
more treatment than other dentists might.
You see, I've been looking online and things like that.
And some dentists are saying, look, we've got
a really pain-free procedure with dental implants.
And the way they do it is they use guided surgery.
So they don't even cut the gum,
they make a little stamp in the gum,
like they cut a little hole out,
exactly the right size as the implant is,
they put the implant in,
and then they cover that hole up.
And to be honest,
if you have your dental implants placed like this,
then there's not gonna be very much pain and discomfort
afterwards, because the hole is tiny,
there's very little healing that has to happen
around that hole and everything's pretty much done.
They're not leaving an open wound, okay?
But the problem with this way of doing it
and the reason that I almost never do it like this,
is that you're always gonna compromise the aesthetics.
You see, I've done another video in the past
about implants in the front of the mouth.
Okay, in what we call the aesthetic sign
and implants in that position,
are very difficult to get right
because you have this problem where
you've lost all this bone.
So the first thing you need to do
when you're looking at putting an implant
to replace a tooth and trying to make it look natural,
is that you have to replace this lost bone
or you need to build up this lack of volume.
So for that reason, because you need to do
multiple things at once, you need to increase the bone
and put the implant in.
My cut is never as tiny as you know,
those guys who are saying
they use this slight keyhole technique.
So even doing that, even doing a bone graft as well.
The pain isn't really that much.
Now let's talk about those people who do experience pain.
Okay, so these are people who've had to take
two or three painkillers every day
for the first three to four days.
Now, these guys have typically had
much more complicated procedures.
It's not just putting an implant in
with a simple bone graft because
we know that hardly causes any discomfort anyway.
There are people who've had
what we call a complicated bone graft.
These people who lost a lot of bone over the years.
It's a very difficult situation and you need
to do a lot of complicated treatments to rebuild the bone.
And typically, this looks worse
than it actually feels for the patient.
What I mean is you know, they'll wake up in the morning,
really swollen, possibly bruised,
if we're doing the top part,
sometimes they'll have black eyes and things like that.
But the amount of pain is only like, you know,
one or two painkillers worth of pain and then as
two three four days goes by,
the swelling calms down a lot and the pain you know,
comes down a lot with that as well.
We're not talking sleepless nights,
we're talking annoying pain,
a soreness which is there for pretty much most of the time.
Okay, so, in summary, dental implants for the
vast majority of people are not very painful at all.
And for those people who it is painful for,
then you typically had much more complicated procedure.
Now, the only kind of category of people
that have missed out here is
where things haven't gone to plan
is there is some level of infection or something like that,
something's not, you know, happen properly relating to that.
So if there's an infection around an implant,
if there's an infection around a bone graft,
stuff like that, yeah, that is most likely
going to cause some level of pain.
But those situations are so rare, especially my surgery,
that I can almost exclude them.
It might happen yeah, a couple of times a year
or something like that.
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