Can you smoke after a dental implant? Can I drink alcohol after dental implant?
Smoking and Drinking Alcohol After Dental Implant
Do smoking and alcohol use after the implant harm the treatment? What is the effect of smoking and alcohol use on dental implant treatment? In our article, we included the answers to these questions and the risks of smoking and alcohol use after the implant.
The Impact of Smoking and Alcohol on Dental Implants
Can you smoke after getting the implant?
No, smoking should be stopped for at least 15 days after the implant. Smoking after the implant is placed is a risky situation. In fact, if possible, our advice to our patients is to take a break from smoking for about 3 months after dental implant treatment for a healthier and faster recovery.
As specialist dentists of Avedent Dental Clinic, our wish is for our patients to quit smoking completely for both recovery after implant treatment and a healthy life.
What happens if I smoke after dental implant?
Smoking after implant harms implant dental treatment. This damage may result in delayed wound healing or even infection if hygiene rules are not followed. The reason for this is that the implant screw (thread with screw), which is the basis of implant treatment, is placed surgically. Cleaning the treated area is of great importance during the healing process after all surgical procedures. Post-implant hygiene is essential to both prevent infection and ensure rapid and healthy healing. Smoking is extremely harmful to this hygiene environment.
How Smoking Affects Dental Implants? Nicotine Negative Effects
The reasons why smoking after the implant is harmful include the risk of infection (inflammation), long recovery time, and unfortunately unsuccessful dental implant treatment. As it is known, after the implant is placed, it takes two weeks for the soft tissue to heal and 3 months for the implant to fuse with the jawbone. During this period, smoking reduces the amount of oxygen in the blood, and more than 4000 harmful substances, including nicotine, mixed into the blood, delay wound healing.
These substances, which are also carcinogenic, create a suitable environment for harmful bacteria to multiply in the mouth. In addition, the production of bone cells, which are very important for bone fusion with the implant, decreases due to the nicotine taken into the body by smoking. This delays the attachment of the implant to the bone or makes the treatment unsuccessful.
How Does Alcohol Affect Dental Implant Success?
Drinking alcohol after the implant will harm the dental implant treatment. Alcohol consumption after implant placement, which is a surgical procedure, negatively affects wound healing. Ethanol used in alcoholic beverages delays the healing of postoperative wounds. Alcohol weakens the immune system, which increases the risk of infection at the surgery site. For these reasons, post-implant alcohol consumption harms implant dental treatment.
Alcohol use after the implant should be postponed for approximately 3 months, just like smoking. Alcohol can be consumed after the healing process of the soft tissues and the implant is covered by the bone.
Smoking and Dental Implants - Reviews
Post-implant smoking reviews are entirely related to the patient’s general health condition and recovery process. The emergence of the harms of smoking and the recovery time for gums and bone structure vary depending on the patient. This makes post-implant smoking comments subjective. The restriction against smoking may be shorter in patients who complete the recovery process quickly. It is also possible to encounter patients who say that they never quit smoking after implant treatment and that they completed their treatment successfully. However, no dentist wants to risk implant dental treatment and lose the implant. For this reason, it is best to comply with the periods recommended by our doctor regarding smoking, depending on the patient’s general health condition and recovery process.
Avedent Dental Clinic, serving in Kadıköy, Istanbul, is known for its successful results in dental implant, same day implant (immediate implant loading), mini implants, all on 4 and all on 6 implant treatments in one day. You can contact us for close follow-up and excellent results in all implant treatments, and if you wish, you can make an appointment immediately.
