I Can Smell My Husband’s Dental Implants
My husband has been getting the all-on-4 dental implants procedure. Right now he has the temporary teeth. Those are acrylic. We’re waiting on the permanent teeth. The thing is before he does that, I think he should switch his dental implants. He has the metal ones, but they make his mouth smell like rubber that is burning. I think his metal implants are reacting with his mouth so he needs to get the non-metal ones. His dentist thinks I’m nuts. But why else would his mouth smell like burning rubber?
Karen
Dear Karen,
So, I wish your husband’s dentist would have explained it to you. It sounds like he did not treat you with respect, though maybe I’m reading too much into it. The thing is, though, while I am certain that you are smelling something unpleasant from his mouth, I do not think the dental implants are the problem.
Traditional dental implants are made from titanium. These are very biocompatible and do not react. They’ve been used for decades in all types of prosthetics. Not just dental implants, but hip replacements, rods to replace bones, etc. They are known to be effective without any biological reactions.
The most likely thing you are smelling is something getting caught in his temporary dentures. Bacteria will smell awful. A simple way to fix this is by getting him a Waterpik. This will help him get the things trapped in his temporary dentures and should take care of the smell.
I would not recommend you switch his implants. If he took his implants out, it would also take out some of the bone those implants are attached to. Plus, there would be holes left where the implants were. These would have to be filled in with a procedure known as bone grafting. Then, after that is healed, he can have the new dental implants placed. Those are three extra surgeries, each of which has a risk of failing. Which is a lot to put your husband through, especially when he has successful implants right now.
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