Mini Dental Implant Training ~Education ~Seminars~Lecture~CE Continuing Education

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Its that time of year again….the Annual Academy Meeting on Mini Dental Implants at the Walt Disney World Beach & Yacht Club Resort.  August 21-22, 2010. 

It is going to be a great time with new and old members showing off some of the cases they have done over the past year with mini dental implants.  From bread and butter denture stabilization to more complex crown and bridge cases that simply could not have been possible without mini implants.  (Well without additional bone grafting, bone splitting and expansion). 

Dr. Todd Shatkin has been gracious enough to let me lecture with him again.  Many of the Las Vegas course attendees have contacted me to let me know how mini dental implants have changed their practice and their patients lives for the better.  It has been a wonderful experience to see so many Doctors want to get training on mini implants.  With many Academy members offering over the shoulder help I think mini implant will be in most dental offices soon. 

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Paresh B Patel DDS

Dentist Mooresville NC
  
 

Mini Dental Implants for Back Jaw Teeth Crowns

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Our next patient came to us seeking an alternative to the treatment options that were given to him:

1.  A set of removable partials

2.  Bone expansion or bone grafts a then traditional or conventional size dental implants.

I told him that those were both great options and at our office I would include a option #3 of some mini dental implants and fixed crowns. 

Before Mini Implants 

Before Mini Dental Implants

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Before Mini Implants Right

Before minis left

Before Mini Implant Left

  

X-rays and study impressions were taken to see if I could place some mini implants to hold in a few crowns.  All looked possible and a phased treatment plan was made.  The patient wanted to start with a single molar on his right side, and a premolar to fill in the missing teeth on both left and right sides. 

As he could afford it additional mini dental implants would be placed to replace the missing molars and other teeth on the top and bottom. 

As usual for me two mini implants were placed to support a molar sized crown and a single mini was placed to support a premolar sized crown.  If I could have placed additional minis in the premolar area I would have – I make it a standard at my office to price the case and not by number of implants placed. 

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 Mini Dental Implants Right side lower jaw

 

 

 

 

 

Mini left side

 

Mini Dental Implants left side lower jaw

 

 

 

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A standard PVS impression was taken and sent to First Impressions Dental Lab in Lenoir NC.  3 PFM crowns were made and cemented with self cure resin cement.

Mini implant molar crown  
Molar Mini Dental Implant Crown far left ~ crown on a natural tooth in the middle ~ Premolar Mini Dental Implant Crown on right ~ natural canine tooth far right

 

 

 

 

 

Mini implant premolar crown

 

Premolar crown on a mini dental implant lower left jaw

 

 

 

 

 

Paresh B Patel DDS

Mini Dental Implants

Dentist Mooresville NC