Dental implant & smoking

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Any smokers here had a dental implant? If so how was you're healing process? Was there much pain after? And when were you able to smoke again?

A quick google says 2 months to avoid.

DHs dad had implants, and gave up smoking altogether. His teeth look amazing now compared to before.

Smoking on a wound inside your mouth is a playground for infections, slow healing and smells.

What about vaping as a substitute? Even if it's just for the healing phase?

If you smoke again your dental implant will fail long term.
Smoking causes your natural teeth to fall out much earlier.
Smoking damages the surrounding gum and bone, which leads to decay and disease. In turn, this weakens the bone and gums that support your implant.
Nicotine slows healing and immunity and disrupts the flow of blood to your bones and gums resulting in teeth and implants failing.
It also prevents your jawbone from fusing with the implant causing it to eventually fail.
Don't be mistaken into thinking it will be ok, it won't and NO reputable dentist should give you an implant if you still smoke.
I do diabetic foot ulcers for a living and smokers foot ulcers never heal. Neither do teeth.

As above , the number one reason for implants to fail is perimplantitis that is gum disease around implants.
The main aggravating factor is smoking , followed by diabetes .
Smokers implant failure rates are 140% higher than non smokers. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8780868/

None of the implantologists in the U.K. I know will place a dental implant in a smoker because of the failure rates.

Why on Earth spend so much money on something and then spend even more money on smoking which may very well cause it to fail and damage the rest of your health? You would be better off living with the gap or having a denture until you can give up the smoking and give the implant the best chance of success.