By now, most adults know the detrimental effects that smoking can have on your health, and even your family’s health. Since we’re on the topic of dental implants this week, we wanted to share with you the harmful consequences of smoking after dental implant surgery, and the possible effects cigarettes may have on your new teeth.

Smoking after dental implant surgery can have many lasting and damaging effects on your new teeth. For the purposes of keeping this article short and to the point, let’s talk about the one outlining reason why dental implants fail; smoking.

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Your dentist told you that you needed a dental implant and now you’re wondering what it is and what’s involved, right? In a nutshell, a dental implant will leave you looking similar in appearance to the tooth you lost.

Dental implants are titanium implants that are “rooted” to the jawbone and placed within the bone. Most implants used today are called root-form endosseous implants. With this type of root implant, your jawbone will accept the titanium post in a process called “osseointegration.” This process of the implantation procedure is what makes the implanted tooth look and feel similar to the tooth you lost. The length of time for osseointegration varies but can take up to six months. In some cases though, if the process doesn’t work, the titanium root will not bond to the jawbone and the implant will fail.

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