[Media Report] New dental implant technology can be done in one day, helping seniors get rid of the dream of missing teeth
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Convergence News Network reporter Lin Zijin/Reporting from Taipei
According to statistics from the National Health Service, 90% of middle-aged and elderly people have periodontal disease. If the periodontal disease is too severe, it may lead to missing teeth, difficulty in chewing, insufficient nutritional intake, and gradual weight loss. Therefore, wearing dentures or dental implants has become an important issue in the health care of the elderly. Now that dental implant technology is becoming increasingly mature, digital technology that can reconstruct a full mouth in one day can help the elderly regain a confident smile.
Liang Jiayuan, director of the Digital Dental Implant Center at Modern Dentist, said that most elderly people wear removable dentures due to missing teeth. However, the fatal disadvantage of removable dentures is that they can easily damage the periodontal period of the remaining teeth during repeated wear and tear, causing the removable dentures to easily slide over time, seriously affecting speech and eating. Liang Jiayuan suggested that if this is the case, you may consider fixed dentures.
However, many people may have heard of cases in which "dental implants are time-consuming, labor-intensive, and have many sequelae." Traditional dental implant surgeries are complicated, the treatment time is long, and there are many dental implants. If combined with bone repair, it will take at least 3 months. Many elders are discouraged when they hear this.
Liang Jiayuan explained that dental implant technology is now quite mature, and with the assistance of digital technology, full-mouth reconstruction can be completed in just one day. The new one-day full-mouth reconstruction, also commonly known as "All on 4" and "All on 6", only requires the implantation of 4 to 6 implants in the upper and lower jaws to install a complete row of fixed dentures. Since this dental implant method uses tilted special implants and places the implants in positions with sufficient bone as the foundation, the overall amount of dental bone required is less. Elderly people with severe bone loss can evaluate this method of dental reconstruction.
Liang Jiayuan added that by using computerized tomography to generate a 3D positioning map, the location of sinus tissue and nerve blood vessels can be accurately identified, and further planning of the correct location of dental implants can avoid damage to nerve blood vessels due to incorrect implant placement, leaving adverse sequelae such as facial paralysis.
Elderly people wearing fixed dentures are not only less likely to loosen, have good adhesion, and have a higher degree of bite recovery, Liang Jiayuan shared that clinical cases show that many elderly people have improved their quality of life after having fixed dentures reconstructed. Compared with traditional removable dentures in the past, they can chew more effectively and get rid of the problem of eating only liquid, soft and rotten food.