BLAST Protocol for Dental Implants
Infection around dental implants eats away the bone holding your implants. It can cause them to weaken and develop oral health issues in your gums. Our office offers a special BLAST Protocol treatment to keep your mouth healthy and safe.
Dental implants need to be taken care of just like your regular teeth. A common misconception is that because they are not ‘real,’ you don’t have to brush or floss them. Indeed, dental implants can’t become infected, but they can still collect bacteria that can lead to disease around the implant.
When the gum tissue around the implant becomes infected, the infection eventually eats away at the bone holding the implant in its place.
Without the supporting bone, your dental implant will have to be removed. The BLAST protocol is designed to help maintain implant health by keeping your gums and bone healthy.
What is the BLAST Protocol?
There are two phases to the BLAST Protocol.
- BLAST Activation Phase: The BLAST protocol activates the dental implant and decontaminates the implant placement site. This combination creates the best possible environment for dental implant success.
- BLAST Maintenance Phase: After your dental implant is placed, BLAST maintenance phase reduces harmful bacteria at your regular follow-up appointments that can lead to infections around your dental implant.
Benefits of the BLAST Protocol
- Reduce harmful bacteria in your mouth
- Increase the ability of the implant to integrate into the bone
- Reduction of inflammation in gums around the dental implant
- Inducement of collagen formation (fibrosis)
- Activation of natural growth factors
Optimize Implant Success from the Beginning
Millions of dental implants have been placed worldwide over the last 20 years, and the dental industry continues to develop better techniques for implant placement based on the knowledge we gain. One of the techniques we have incorporated at (office name) uses the PerioLase MVP-7 to help us achieve better results when we place an implant in your mouth.
It’s a little-known fact that dental implants “age” before they are placed and lose some of the properties that help them integrate into the bone. As part of the BLAST protocol, we use the PerioLase to reactivate the titanium before we place the dental implant. This process is called photofunctionalization, and it helps encourage materials to stick to the titanium. That allows the bone to get as close as possible to the implant for an osseointegration.
Decrease Harmful Bacteria Around Your Dental Implant
The second step in the BLAST Protocol is to use the laser to decontaminate the bone and gums before we place the implant. This helps the healing process because we’re making sure to get rid of the harmful bacteria that hang out in our mouths. This particular laser is proven to destroy harmful bacteria without affecting the helpful bacteria we need.
- We use this process for individual implants and laser-assisted full arch implant placement.
- By restoring the titanium to its active state before placing the implant and ensuring we have the cleanest possible implant site, we’re giving that implant the best chance for a lifetime of success.
Keeping Your Dental Implant Healthy
At Dental Home Family Dentistry, we incorporate the latest technology for advanced care, including BLAST with the PerioLase MVP-7 dental laser
The PerioLase has been shown to destroy the bacteria that cause periodontal disease. Recent studies have shown that the PerioLase laser can kill 100% of bacteria on titanium implants 100% of the time.
As part of routine implant follow-up visits, we use the BLAST Protocol to decontaminate and disinfect the tissue and bone around the implant at regular intervals. This allows us to control the harmful bacteria that we all have in our mouths and prevent them from infecting the tissue around our implant. By proactively maintaining gum health around the implant, we can help protect your implant investment.
Advantages Of BLAST
Destroy harmful bacteria:
Microflora in the mouth before a dental implant is placed can affect the development of new bacteria colonies on and around dental implants. Bacteria can be found in healed bone after extractions and later reinfect the area around the dental implant. By reducing harmful bacteria before implant placement, we can help avoid immediate infections.
Unique Patient Experience:
low laser energy is soothing and relaxing for patients.
Set up for Success:
Limit use of antibacterial rinses that may disturb the healing process.
Profound Healing:
Nd:YAG laser energy can cause the body to produce certain growth factors that help with healing.
More Effective:
laser therapy is proven to be more effective at reducing periodontal pathogens