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MountainMama
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I honestly don’t have a clue what just happened but it is freaking me out. I was flossing my teeth, as I do every night. As I went to floss between my fairly new implant crown #19, and the second molar #18, the floss would not even go between. It was like the crown and the tooth were extremely tightly together. I have never had issues flossing there. My dentist spent quite a bit of time making sure floss would easily slide between them.
I panicked and grabbed an interdental brush. There was nothing stuck in there. The crown didn’t move or wiggle but felt like it was “pulling up” when I tried to prod it with the interdental brush.
It wasn’t painful or loose feeling. I tried floss again and this time it went down between the teeth without a problem, but when I flossed down the side of the implant, there was a bit of blood. No pain. Bleeding stopped immediately. It seemed like the implant was out of place and then moved back, but it isn’t loose.
Did the implant move? Should I be worried? I have never had that happen before. It has always flossed easily.
I panicked and grabbed an interdental brush. There was nothing stuck in there. The crown didn’t move or wiggle but felt like it was “pulling up” when I tried to prod it with the interdental brush.
It wasn’t painful or loose feeling. I tried floss again and this time it went down between the teeth without a problem, but when I flossed down the side of the implant, there was a bit of blood. No pain. Bleeding stopped immediately. It seemed like the implant was out of place and then moved back, but it isn’t loose.
Did the implant move? Should I be worried? I have never had that happen before. It has always flossed easily.
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