Question by ѕкιттℓєѕ: Confused about Implants?? ?
I’ve had my first stage dental implants placed around 5 months ago. For around two months they were fine but then I had a second degree infection form on my gum. This was healed by prescribed antibiotics. Just recently one of the screws has appeared through my gum, followed by another infection around it. I’m off to the dentist to get more antibiotics however i’m fearing the worst and i’m very worried that i’m going to have to go through the procedure again. Any ideas what’s going on?

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Answer by Monstermunch
You need to talk to someone about this. It depends whether the infection is gun or bone related but it sounds odd that the first part has appeared like that.

Did your ordinary dentist fit it using a full surgical technique or did you visit a dental surgeon that does implanting all the time.

Start asking questions firstly with your own dentist and if you are not happy with the discussion ask to be referred to someone else for discussion.

But remember that the coming thought he gum is unusual the bone will have set the first stage in place by now and you would have been close to second stage soon and if you had the same method I had where they cut the gum to access them again then it will not matter to much as they would access them anyway.

But no way would I go for second stage until the infection is cleared.
Perhaps rather than one course of antibiotics your dentist should be considering using a ‘double whammy’ type approach to cover all the potential bacteria. Unpleasant to take but would be worth it in the end.

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