Implant Maintenance

Information About Your New Implant Prosthesis

The following information is important for you to understand to ensure the long term success of your implants and crowns.

We have done our best to provide you with a well-fitted, functional and esthetic implant prosthesis. We feel confident that your adjustment to these artificial teeth will be fast and that you will have many years of satisfaction and use from them. The following information is important for you to understand.

Your First Few Weeks: For several days, please chew more carefully on these restorations than on natural teeth. We will adjust the bite (occlusion) on future appointments until it is very well balanced. After you have adjusted to the prosthesis, it should function in a very similar manner to natural teeth.
Cleaning the Implant and Prosthesis: The continued success of the implant and prosthesis is up to you. Please do the following (items checked):

Clean the implant(s) daily especially before bedtime using:

____Floss ____Rubber Tip

____Proxabrushes ____Sulca Brush

____Toothbrush ____End Tufted Toothbrush

____Sonicare Electric Toothbrush

Please ask us about anything that is unclear to you on the subject of cleanliness and homecare.

The Future: We need to see you at least once every 4 months and Dr. Derhalli once every 12 months for examination and professional maintenance. These appointments are very important to the long-term success of your prosthesis. You should expect many years of use and satisfaction from your prosthesis.

Please contact us if any of the conditions below occur:

Feeling of looseness
Peculiar taste
Clicking or metallic snap while eating
Breakage of a piece of the prosthesis
Redness in gum tissue around the implant
Feeling of the bite being different
Pain/swelling

We look forward to helping you enjoy your new and improved chewing ability and esthetics.

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5/11/2020

To our Patients:

We hope this letter finds you and your families in good health. Our community has been through a lot over the last few months, and all of us are looking forward to resuming our normal habits and routines. While many things have changed, one thing has remained the same: our commitment to your safety.

Infection control has always been a top priority for our practice and you may have seen this during your visits to our office. Our infection control processes are made so that when you receive care, it’s both safe and comfortable. We want to tell you about the infection control procedures we follow in our practice to keep patients and staff safe.

Our office follows infection control recommendations made by the American Dental Association (ADA), American Academy of Periodontology (AAP) the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). We follow the activities of these agencies so that we are up-to-date on any new rulings or guidance that may be issued.

You WILL see some changes when it is time for your next appointment. We made these changes to help protect our patients and staff. For example:

Our office will communicate with you beforehand to ask some screening questions. You’ll be asked those same questions again when you are in the office.
Glass barriers along the reception desk and checkout areas.
We have hand sanitizer that we will ask you to use when you enter the office. You will also find some in the reception area and other places in the office for you to use as needed.
You may see that our waiting room will no longer offer magazines, since those items are difficult to clean and disinfect.
Appointments will be managed to allow for social distancing between patients. That might mean that you’re offered fewer options for scheduling your appointment (i.e. availability of Hygienists).
We will do our best to allow greater time between patients to reduce waiting times for you, as well as to reduce the number of patients in the reception area at any one time.
We have acquired new technology (Medical grade HEPA filtration and UV. Light disinfecting system) to facilitate the removal of droplets and aerosols during surgical and hygiene procedures.

We look forward to seeing you again and are happy to answer any questions you may have about the steps we take to keep you, and every patient, safe in our practice. To make an appointment, please call our office at 360-254-8151 or visit our website and fill out our contact form.

Thank you for being a part of our practice. We value your trust and loyalty and look forward to welcoming back our patients, neighbors and friends.

Sincerely,

Dr. Derhalli, Sherry, Terri, Yleanna, Kacy, Jenny and Cindy