Getting & Cleaning Dental Implants for Oral Hygiene

Video Transcript

"Hi I’m Dr. Scott Chandler with Silver Creek Dental on behalf of Expert Village.com. In this clip we are going to be talking about how to clean around mini dental implants. Now many dental implants are a fairly new thing in the dental market and if your dentist isn’t doing the easing, talk to him about it. He may be able to look. Most of the time these mini dental implants are used for denture retention, so what I’ve got here is a model of a lower denture because those seem to be the trickiest ones. The mini dental implants you can see kind here at the bone are just tiny titanium screws basically are posts that we put down to the jaw bone. They heel in and they become anchors for your dentures. They’ve got a little ball on the top of them and then inside the denture there is a little cap, a little rubber o-ring cap. Now it is very important to keep the food and things out of that. Be sure to keep it clean. Now we’ve got a special toothbrush we use for cleaning these. You can see it looks kind of funny there. It’s got these round bristles that kind of wrap around those implants and those little short ones for cleaning the top. You can kind of make something like this of your own. I guess if you got creative with your little pair of scissors and some things at home. But be sure you are cleaning well around these little mini implants. You get up inside there and you clean those little brushes. Now if you have a regular toothbrush with kind of a pointy tip, I find those tend to work better. So you clean those little o-rings out of the caps. Now on to the important stuff; cleaning the implants. With this little brush you get right down on the top of those implants and you can see how those bristles just wrap right around that thing and clean all the junk off of the top of the implant head. You got to be sure and catch it from a different couple of angles. You get one and you brush it from several different angles. Make sure those little bristles are wrapping around there. When you are done, take a good look and make sure you don’t have chunks of food or anything left stuck around those. Be sure you are doing that after every meal if you can at least twice a day. You don’t want to be loosing those implants. That will be really important to you once you’ve got them. "