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Dental Implants for Healthy Smiles · Talking FACS

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  Welcome to Talking Facts and thank you for tuning in to Kentucky Smiles on Talking Facts,
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  a podcast collaboration between the University of Kentucky College of Dentistry and the UK College of Agriculture,
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  Food and Environment Cooperative Extension Service.
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  Kentucky Smiles offers listeners information on maintaining oral health advancements in dental treatments,
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  research and more.
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  Hello and welcome to Kentucky Smiles on Talking Facts.
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  This partnership between the UK College of Dentistry and Family and Consumer Sciences Extension allows us to reach the people of Kentucky with dental health information on their own schedules.
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  I am your host,
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  Mindy mcculley Extension Specialist for instructional support.
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  My guest today is Doctor Ahmad Kke,
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  associate professor of Prosthodontics.
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  Welcome,
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  Doctor Cut Cut.
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  Thank you.
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  I'm excited to talk to you about common questions about dental implants because I think that this is probably a topic that a lot of people might have questions about,
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  but they don't really know where to get the answers.
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  So I think we're gonna answer some of those questions.
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  So my first question for you is what are some things that we need to deal with before we ever talk about dental implants?
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  Do we really need to talk about good oral and general health.
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  First.
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  Yes.
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  Uh First of all,
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  I would like to thank you again for the opportunity and uh addressing this important issue to the public.
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  Uh This is a great initiative.
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  Uh Definitely the good oral hygiene.
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  Good general health is a main factor for making the treatment any kind of dental treatment successful for the patient,
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  especially dental implant.
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  Because dental implant involves surgical procedures and some treatment that needed prior to the actual implant,
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  uh placement and restorations,
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  maintenance,
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  oral hygiene,
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  cleaning,
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  brushing,
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  flossing.
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  These need to be addressed before even thinking or planning for uh this type of treatment.
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  So if we can at all possible,
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  we want to maintain that natural truth,
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  right?
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  Yes,
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  it's really important to do our best to maintain the tie that we have.
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  Um God gave us which you know,
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  cannot be replaced with anything else at the same quality and same material.
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  But thankfully,
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  we have the opportunity in cases that implant or any dental treatment needed.
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  Uh We have that option uh available to restore uh function and uh chewing ability for patients who need the treatment.
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  So what exactly are dental implants?
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  Good question dental implants.
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  Simply a small device needed to replace a missing tooth.
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  So if we are thinking about uh the actual human tooth,
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  uh the tooth has two parts,
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  the root that embedded in the bone and the crown that showed the oral cavity.
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  So if we gonna replace that natural tooth by an implant.
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  We have to think about merely these two components.
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  The root component which is like a screw or post inserted in the bone and the other component involved in the crown portion to mimic the natural tooth crown.
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  The material that used for dental implant is titanium.
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  And the best benefit of titanium is integrating to the jawbone,
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  that means it's very compatible.
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  So the body accepted doesn't reject the implant to replace that missing tooth.
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  The other component that needed is the connecting the crown to the implant fixture that replacing the the root of the tooth.
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  Uh what we call the connector is abu so the abutment is connecting the implant crown to the implant fixture to fully have the implant completed in three component or three parts,
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  the implant post,
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  the abutment and the infant crown that fabricated to match the natural teeth.
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  So this replaces one tooth that's missing,
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  not the when where we see on television,
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  maybe somebody who has lost all of their teeth and has to get denture.
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  Yes.
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  Uh So when we talk about a single replacement of a tooth,
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  that's the implant component as implant fixture,
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  Ament and crown.
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  When it comes to the fully entous patients who had no teeth,
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  then we have different ways of replacing the missing teeth with like either infant supported dentures or,
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  or implant,
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  uh fixed kind of crown and bridge option.
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  Uh So we can talk about different modality treatments with entous patients who have no teeth.
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  But definitely the implant can improve the patient's quality of life and satisfaction with their dentures if they are unhappy with it.
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  Ok,
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  so I'm guessing then that's one of the benefits of dental implants.
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  What are some other benefits of dental implants?
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  Yes,
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  this is a,
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  a great question.
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  We need to think about uh the consequences of missing teeth.
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  What happened after the patient lost a tooth if we don't replace that missing space or the gap in the patient's mouth,
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  first,
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  we're gonna lose the bone,
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  then we're gonna have teeth shifting around to fill in that gap.
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  So we have ac causal problem,
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  biting issues that may create other problems for the patient.
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  So the best benefit of the dental implant is replacing the missing tooth to fully gain the chewing ability function and eating most of the patients.
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  They do not find differences between the dental impact and the nature of tooth,
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  you know,
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  after replacement.
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  Uh So that's a great deal.
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  Actually,
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  they can eat normally,
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  they can brush and plus normally when we talk about single infant replacement,
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  the other benefits can be considered as improving the patient's satisfaction with their dentures by adding implant to retain or keep the denture in place with different ways of treatment.
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  The denture itself may create more damage to the ridges and so they have more bone loss and wear on their jaw,
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  bone so the infant can keep maintaining that bone for a longer time.
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  And I'm guessing that improved quality of life or satisfaction with their appearance might be another benefit.
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  Absolutely.
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  Yeah,
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  that's another benefit because they maintain their uh facial architecture and facial smile and facial support to their lips and cheeks and they can look normal when they have that option.
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  The treatment that,
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  that definitely sounds good.
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  So,
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  are there downsides to den dental implants?
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  Uh dental implants is uh a surgical procedure to place that implant before restoration.
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  Any surgical procedure has a risk of infection failure.
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  These are the most common complication after dental implant placement surgery.
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  But it's not that common though.
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  The success rate of the implant treatment is very high.
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  It's 98% in many cases.
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  So it's very safe procedure,
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  very successful.
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  However,
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  some patients may be not good candidate for that.
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  Not all patients can tolerate surgical procedures.
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  Sure.
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  How would I know if I was a good candidate?
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  Good question.
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  Basically,
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  if the patient has missing one or multiple teeth.
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  Uh and in their general,
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  like good general health,
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  they don't have any contra indication from the systemic diseases like bone disease or they don't have uh medication that probably make the surgical procedure a risk factor for like complications.
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  Uh then uh dental implant is really a valid and good treatment option uh to replace missing teeth and enhance the patient's experience with their dentures if they are unhappy with the denture work or the bridge work.
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  Uh Some cases,
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  if there's insufficient bone available for infant placement,
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  that's probably another factor limiting the ability to place the implant for the patient.
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  In general.
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  Technology is enhancing and making the treatment much easier.
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  Uh The advancement in dental material or biomaterial for drafting that needed uh prior to the implant placement also is a promising uh field that can help most of the patients receive their implant safely and successfully.
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  Ok.
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  Is this an expensive procedure?
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  You know,
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  uh it depends,
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  it depends on,
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  on,
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  on a number of implants uh on the case like single replacement or multiple replacement of teeth or fully in like we're gonna replace like full mouth rehabilitation to restore all missing teeth.
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  Uh So various treatment reflect different cost.
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  Uh but if you think about replacing a single tooth,
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  either a bridge or an implant,
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  you can think about it uh in in a way that you can save the adjacent teeth without modification or preparation to put that bridge to replace that missing tooth.
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  On the other hand,
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  single implant replacement cost wise may be similar to the three unit of bridge if if not cheaper.
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  In some cases,
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  if you wanna add root canal treatment uh or other treatment that needed to make that bridge successful,
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  probably single in replacement,
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  considered a bitter option,
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  financial wise.
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  And I'm sure that depending on what type of insurance you have uh that might have an impact as well.
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  Absolutely.
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  Yes.
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  Doctor Cut Cut.
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  Thank you so much for taking the time to spend with us today and,
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  and talk about this groundbreaking procedure that can have a great impacts on people's lives.
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  My pleasure.
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  I and I would like to thank you again for my uh for the invitation and have me on this show.
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  Thank you so much.
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