Posted on 02/13/2023 5:08:54 PM PST by algore
Could your prescription pills affect the outcome of dental implant surgery? It’s a problem highlighted by a recent study from dentists in Spain.
They found that people who were taking antidepressants — specifically, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) — at the time of their surgery, and for at least one year beforehand, had a more than 4.5-fold increased risk of their implants failing.
The 170 patients in the study were taking some of the most commonly prescribed SSRIs in the UK, such as citalopram, escitalopram, fluoxetine, fluvoxamine, paroxetine and sertraline.
A ‘failed’ implant is defined as the implant falling out or moving, or the occurrence of bone loss, pain, or pus forming.
The researchers, from the Complutense University of Madrid, suggested that SSRIs may affect bone metabolism
Normally, the body lays new bone directly on the implant surface, making it secure — a process called osseointegration. But this may not happen with SSRIs, resulting in the implant not integrating with the bone.
Antipsychotics — prescribed for bipolar disorder, severe depression and schizophrenia — may also cause issues for dental implants, as they can cause teeth-grinding, too.
In a 2019 report in the journal Australian Prescriber, Geraldine Moses, a consultant pharmacist to the Australian Dental Association, wrote that ‘bruxism [i.e. teeth-grinding] is an under-recognised adverse drug reaction particularly associated with use of antipsychotics and SSRIs’.
Professor Justin Durham, chief scientific adviser at the British Dental Association, described the findings as ‘interesting’, but said that more research was needed before definitive conclusions were drawn, and clinical guidelines would not be changing based on the outcomes of the study.
‘The mechanism by which these antidepressants might affect the attachment of teeth and implants to the bone of the mouth is complex and is still yet to be fully explored and understood,’ he says
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Never heard this theory before
The more important question: are antidepressants helping with depression? Are people getting better?
The only long term study coudln’t prove it, and suggested the opposite.
Whatever antidepressants do that causes teeth to fall, who knows what other problems cause.
“The more important question: are antidepressants helping with depression? Are people getting better?”
A good question.
I could ask many, but each one would put me on lists and go on my permanent record
Maybe the unlucky patients are also taking lithium.
The more important question: are antidepressants helping with depression? Are people getting better?
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They might treat some symptoms, I don’t know if they fix the cause.
“ as they can cause teeth-grinding, too.”
They have it ass backwards. It’s caused by pre existing anxiety which is being treated by the SSI
SSRI
Doesn’t have to be severe to be prescribed. Fluxotine is Prozac
You seem confident that these unnatural, patented things, won’t even cause a vitamin deficiency.
Natural things are easy to stop eating. People find it difficult to stop taking antidepressants.
Well that’s depressing
No I would say each type works differently and affects each person differently. It’s a PIA to get it right and some never do
"Are antidepressants affecting your teeth? How common prescription pills could make you dental implants fall out"
And all this time I thought it was the meth making my teeth fallout when it was really the anti anxiety meds. I’ll sue!
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