Pee Dee Implant Center assesses and treats failed dental implants in Florence, South Carolina for patients across the Pee Dee region, including implants placed by other practices, out of state, or overseas in Mexico, Costa Rica and Turkey. A failing implant that nobody will look at turns a fixable problem into bone loss, and the window in which it stays fixable is measured in months.
How do I know if my implant is failing?
Five signs. The implant moves when pressed or when you chew. The gum around it is red, swollen or bleeding. Pus discharges from the margin. There is persistent pain months after placement, when discomfort should have resolved in days. The crown or abutment feels loose. Any of those warrants a CBCT scan, because bone loss is visible on imaging long before the implant becomes mobile.
What causes dental implants to fail?
Peri-implantitis is the leading cause, affecting 10 to 20 percent of implants over ten years. It is bacterial inflammation that destroys the bone anchoring the implant, and it starts with what does not get cleaned. Other causes are early failure from poor primary stability at placement, smoking, which roughly doubles the failure rate, uncontrolled diabetes, excess cement left under a crown, and overloading a temporary before integration completed.
Can a failed implant be saved?
Sometimes, and the deciding factor is whether the implant is still stable. A stable implant with peri-implantitis can be treated: decontaminating the surface, regenerative grafting around it and a revised hygiene protocol. A mobile implant has already lost its bone attachment and cannot be saved. It comes out, the site is grafted, and a replacement goes in three to six months later once the bone has rebuilt.
What does failed implant treatment cost in Florence, SC?
Assessment and CBCT run $150 to $400. Peri-implantitis treatment on a stable implant runs $800 to $2,500 depending on whether regenerative grafting is needed. Removal of a failed implant runs $500 to $1,200, plus $300 to $1,200 for grafting the site. A replacement implant afterwards is priced as a new single implant at $3,000 to $5,000.
Will you treat an implant someone else placed?
Yes, including implants placed abroad. The practical complication with overseas work is identifying the system: components from smaller manufacturers are hard to source in the United States, and where the abutment cannot be matched, restoring the implant means replacing it. Bring any paperwork, implant passport or imaging you were given, because it can save a great deal of the diagnostic work.
How soon should I be seen?
Within weeks, not months. Peri-implantitis destroys bone progressively, and the difference between an implant that can be decontaminated and grafted and one that has to come out is often a few millimetres of remaining bone. Patients who wait a year for pain to resolve on its own generally arrive needing the removal rather than the repair.
Technician insight
The patients we cannot help are the ones who waited. An implant that has been sore for eighteen months has usually lost the bone that would have made saving it possible. If yours hurts, moves or bleeds, get it scanned now, even if the practice that placed it has told you to give it time.
Failed Implant Repair Services We Offer
✓Peri-Implantitis Treatment
Surface decontamination and regenerative grafting around a stable implant.
✓Failed Implant Removal
Explantation of a mobile implant and grafting of the site.
✓Loose Crown or Abutment Repair
Retorquing or replacing components where the implant itself is sound.
✓Overseas Implant Assessment
Identifying the system and restoring work placed abroad.
✓Site Regrafting and Replacement
Rebuilding the bone and placing a new implant three to six months on.
✓Second Opinion Imaging
CBCT read on an implant another practice says cannot be saved.
Failed Implant Repair Cost in Florence, SC
| Service | Typical Range | What Affects It |
|---|---|---|
| Assessment and CBCT scan | $150-$400 | Including implant system identification |
| Peri-implantitis treatment | $800-$2,500 | Higher where regenerative grafting is needed |
| Failed implant removal | $500-$1,200 | Explantation of a mobile implant |
| Site grafting after removal | $300-$1,200 | Rebuilding before a replacement |
| Replacement implant | $3,000-$5,000 | Placed 3-6 months after grafting |
Ranges are typical for Florence, SC and confirmed with an exact written quote before any work starts.
Pricing
Ranges for the Florence and Pee Dee area, priced by what the assessment actually finds.