Strange Implant- Dental implants?!
Question: Strange Implant- Dental implants?
I've just had my first stage completed for my tooth next to my front tooth. Now the problem i'm having is that you can see the screw. It looks to me like the stitches which were binding the pieces of tissue together to hide the screw dissolved too quickly and the tissue has folded back to reveal the screw. I know you're not supposed to see the screw and now my gum looks a bit mis shaped. I saw my dentist who done the procedure on wednesday which was two weeks after the operation and he said it was fine. However I'm not sure whether the screw was visible or not at the time as I hadn't looked. Will it be ok? Or what are my options?
Answers:
There are two different techniques used and one is where the implant end is hidden under the gum and then the other is where a more superficial technique is used. I have four implants and two were hidden and the other two were a different type and it was exposed in the same manner yours our.
It is something to do with the different healing and healing caps of whatever and I can promise you that when the whole implant is finished and the crown part is added the result will be brilliant and you will see nothing of what you are seeing now. I expect it may even be a double tooth with the different finish I know there was something with the reasons behind mine.
Get a second look by another dentist.
If he used a titanium srew you can see it through the front as the bone is very thin.
You could have had a zirconium screw, its the clour of bone and is very strong!
Go back to the dentist, and tell him what you saw, and have said dentist re-check it.
Wish I knew. I need a implant and that's not encouraging.