Glidewell Mini Dental Implant Overdenture Education Seminar with Hands on Placement Course
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Mini Dental Implants Can Replace a Broken Upper Tooth with a Fixed Porcelain Crown
What do you do when an upper tooth that has had a root canal just breaks one day?
Broken upper premolar tooth. The root is fractured under the gum tissue.
X ray and extraction of the broken tooth
The broken tooth is removed carefully to preserve as much bone as possible. A OCO Biomedical 3.0mm mini dental implant is placed the same day as the extraction. With the design of the OCO mini implant it is able to achieve high initial stability. Enough to place a temporary crown to shape the tissue during healing.
Clinical photo of the OCO Biomedical implant the day of placement.
Tissue after shaping and healing with a temporary crown. The temporary crown was removed to check healing…pink healthy gum tissue with no bleeding. A standard crown impression will be taken and a porcelain crown will be made to fit over the mini dental implant.
Porcelain crown cemented in place over the OCO Biomedical mini dental implant. The patient will brush and floss the mini dental implant crown just like any other tooth.
With a mini dental implant there are lots of solutions that can be offered to patients.
Paresh B Patel DDS
Dental Implants to Replace a Missing Back Molar
Are you missing a back tooth? Then you should consider getting a dental implant. A dental implant acts as the root of the tooth and can allow for a crown to be placed over the implant. No need to grind down healthy teeth on either side of your missing tooth for a bridge.
X ray of my patient showing the missing upper molar tooth. One option would have been to grind away healthy tooth to create room for a bridge. The teeth on either side of the missing tooth would have to be drilled on for a 'crown' and that would hold in the bridge.
With a dental implant we can save healthy tooth structure by not having to shape the adjacent natural teeth. In some cases it can cost less to do a dental implant and crown instead of a bridge.
Final pan x-ray of a OCO two piece 6mm x 6mm dental implant placed to act as the root of a missing upper molar tooth.
Clinical picture of the same OCO two piece dental implant with a healing cap. This is the day of placement. Notice the lack of blood or stitches or the gum having to be cut and pushed back. This traditional size dental implant is placed in the same fashion as a mini dental implant. Very little surgery, very little discomfort and post operative pain for the patients. Because the bone in this case was very soft I decided to use a regular sized traditional two piece dental implant.
If the bone had been dense I could have placed multiple mini dental implants to support the molar crown as shown in this case. Both solutions work and work well. It is really a choice for the patient and dentist on what can be done and at what cost (economic, time, and potential discomfort).
This implant will heal for several months (12-16 weeks) before we can 'load' it with a crown. In the case shown above with the mini dental implants because there was good dense bone I was able to place the crown over the implants in 3 weeks. The mini implant crown has been in function now for over a year.
I will continue the post to show the abutment (the part of the implant that comes up out of the gum for the crown to attach to) and final porcelain crown.
Paresh B Patel Dental Implants Charlotte NC
Mini Dental Implant Seminar – One Day Hands On Educational Course with 7 hours CE
A full day of education to learn the next small big thing in implant dentistry….the mini dental implant.
Easy to place
Easy to restore
Minimal surgery with Maximum return for Dr.'s and Patients
If you have never placed a dental implant then consider starting with a 2.2mm or 2.5mm mini dental implant from OCO Biomedical.
If you are placing implants and want to sharpen your skill for fixed or removable applications then this course will teach you the logical progression to larger size implants. Move from the 2.2 and 2.5 micro implants to a real 3.0 Mini Implant. Then by just changing the final bit (no additional drills) you can move up to a 4.0 or 5.0 one piece or two piece implant.
Paresh B Patel Implant Dentistry Charlotte NC
Mini Dental Implant Training ~Education ~Seminars~Lab Consulting
Todd Shatkin DDS, the go to guy for mini dental implant education & the dentist who trained me, is having a 2 day advanced course in Las Vegas March 12 – 13.
Dr. Shatkin asked me to present some cases in Chicago last week. It was an honor for me. Clinical cases that I did over the past year were shown to highlight what can be done with mini dental implants. With the correct education and lab support from his father, Sam Shatkin DDS MD, I feel very confident that most conscientious restorative dentists can become good mini dental implant providers.
I have been given the opportunity to speak again in Vegas and look forward to meeting everyone excited about mini dental implants and their ability to change the lives of both dentists and patients.