MINI DENTAL IMPLANT
1. What Are Mini Dental Implants?
2.Is the Mini Dental Implant FDA approved?
3. When can Mini Dental Implants be used?
4. What’s the primary and most effective use for Mini Dental Implants?
5. How specifically can Mini Dental Implants help denture wearers?
6. What about failures with Mini Dental Implants?
7 . How are Mini Dental Implants different?
8 . What type surgery is involved with Mini Dental Implants?
. 9. What will my first day be like with Mini Dental Implants?
10. How do I place & remove my dentures with Mini Dental Implants?
11. What’s a typical daily routine one might expect once the Mini Dental Implants have been placed?
13. Other usages of the MDI ?
Mini dental implants are ultra-small diameter (l.8-2 millimeter width), biocompatible titanium alloy implant screws, conceived and designed over 20 years ago. The mini implants originally created the unique design of this unique dental product as a transitional device to help support fixed bridge replacements for lost teeth. Then after time, we saw that mini implants could function free standing by themselves or in combination with natural tooth supports and/or larger conventional type dental implants. This was a revolutionary concept in dental science.
Yes. After providing satisfactory technical and clinical evidence to that agency that the product was safe for public use and in fact had beneficial attributes, the FDA granted its formal consent to market the Mini Dental Implant device not only as a transitional or temporary dental product, but significantly, as an on-going item.
When critically needed for support purposes, and where solid bony adaptation (integration) has clearly occurred, mini implants can function as long-term supporting structures rather than as short-term or medium term devices. In fact, some have been successfully functioning in patients’ jaws for several decades.
The most effective use of this unique dental product is stabilization of a lower denture. There are approximately 50,000,000 people in the United States who are “edentulous” (literally meaning lacking teeth) who struggle daily with prosthetic devices. A majority suffer a great deal of discomfort as a result of loose or ill-fitting dentures. Many denture wearers simply withdraw from any type of social engagement as a result of being compelled to wear them. Moreover, it's not uncommon for family members to complain about a denture wearer’s disagreeable breath as a result of food being trapped and decaying under their denture prosthesis. Successful placement of the Mini Dental Implant addresses and solves all of these social and practical problems.
The standard insertion protocol for mini dental implants calls for four of them to be gently advanced into the front of a patient’s lower jaw. This is a relatively painless procedure that can be performed by a general dentist, requiring only a mild anesthesia. The mini dental implants, which are approximately the size of wooden toothpicks, are placed about five millimeters apart in the patient’s mandible. The patient’s denture is then carefully adjusted by the dentist to allow it to snap onto the four mini implants. The result? A tight fitting, completely reliable system that allows a patient to speak and eat with confidence. The Mini Dental Implants are placed in about an hour’s time. Because of the unique, minimally invasive procedure, the minute size of the implants, and the characteristic placement area, the typical Mini Dental Implant patient can enjoy a light meal an hour after having the mini implants placed.
We have some of the oldest and extensive data in regards to the MDI. We are currently in the process of publishing these data. The rate of success of the MDI is close to 95%. Strict case selection and adherence to protocols, as well as our extensive training in Oral Surgery and Implant Dentistry, ensure this high rate of success. It must be recognized that all implant systems as well as natural teeth are subject to potential failure due to natural causes, including osteoporosis, poor oral hygiene, wear and tear attrition, poor health, heavy, stressful biting habits, and lack of follow-up dental maintenance care. Mini implants similarly do not carry any actual or implied guarantee as to longevity. However, the loss of a Mini Dental Implant is a far less critical event to the patient since it may be replaced at relatively minimal cost compared to conventional implants, and with minimal associated bone or gum deterioration.
As a revolutionary departure from routine dental implant methods, Mini Dental Implants are so narrow they are typically inserted directly through the overlying gum tissue and into the bone underneath. Consequently the need to surgically cut and “flap” open the gum tissue, routinely required for standard implant systems, may be avoided in most Mini Dental Implant applications. As a result, post-insertion patient irritation and soreness is significantly reduced. While all dental implants require care during insertion to avoid encroaching on vulnerable nerve, sinus or bony structures, the ultra small width of the mini implants offers a much more comfortable margin of safety.
A single, minimally invasive surgery is needed for insertion of the Mini Dental Implants. The implants are then put into immediate biting or “loading” function thanks to their “self-tapping” design, thereby anchoring a fixed bridge system. As a result, it is often possible to provide the complete mini implant service in a single office visit. Mini dental implants clearly represent an enormous breakthrough for the dental implant specialty as the most patient-friendly, cost-effective, proven dental implant system available today.
Mini Dental Implants are surprisingly affordable, at a fraction of the cost of traditional implants. By choosing the Mini Dental Implant, you’ve chosen an enhanced way of life free of a lot of the discomforts and heartaches of a loose or ill-fitting denture. Our office is geared towards implant and other related technologies. We maintain a large inventory of these MDI’s. Our bulk purchases allow us to get large discounts on an already affordable product. These discounts are passed on to our patients. The office also has always several promotions going on, our patients can take advantage of these promotions.
We have perfected the system and have successfully started using it for FIXED crowns and bridges. In instances where the patient needs a one tooth replacement or a few teeth replaced and does not want to wear dentures or conventional multiple units bridges, we have used the MDI as abutments (just like conventional implants). In a matter of minutes an MDI is placed into the appropriate area, an impression is taken and our lab technicians fabricate a fixed individual tooth (or teeth) permanently cemented over the MDI. This procedure is extremely quick and cost efficient and in some instances can be done in a matter of a few hours.