Many thanks to Dr. Bob Caseldine for getting the first edition of the Journal of the Academy of Mini Dental Implants published. For him it has been a labor of love and it shows. Great Job! With this new addition to the Academy I hope it encourages more Dentists to see the value that the […]
Part II of the fixed hybrid bridge post. You can scroll down 1/2 into the web page to see the complete case… This is the finished product for our patient that came in just gagging on her upper denture. She wanted to have a solution that would allow her to have the roof of mouth not covered […]
As promised here are the pictures of the fixed cement hybrid bridge (denture teeth with a metal frame that fits over the mini dental implants). Denture tooth bridge with a cast metal frame that will be cemented over the 9 mini dental implants View of upper fixed hybrid cemented in place to show horseshoe shape and no coverage […]
Todd E. Shatkin DDS & Paresh B Patel DDS will teach in Dr. Shatkin's 1 and 2 day seminars on Nov 5th 2010 in Baltimore, MD and Dec 3rd in Pittsburg, PA: mini-implant placement and case selection treatment planning and case selection one stage denture stabilization; immediate implants and crowns full arch reconstruction with mini […]
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 […]
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 […]
I think someone told me that Dr. Christensen said that in an article in 2006….well its been 4 years since that statement and the mini dental implant is good for lots more than holding down a lower denture. Mini Dental Implants can stabilize lower dentures of course. But they can also do the same for […]
Our next patient came to see us because she had some lower minis placed. She could not stop talking about how she was now able to actually wear her lower denture and chew. Wonderful….so what could I do to help her? I did notice that the entire time she was in the dental chair talking she […]
OK…since I first found about the OCO i mini (i micro)dental implant in the 2.2 and 2.5mm diameters I have been dying to try some. A square crown and bridge head is just what I had looking for in the Intra Lock offering; but sadly enough they did not take me up on my suggestion. […]
This is part II of the post… The mini dental implants have been placed and allowed to heal. Impressions were taken and sent to the crown and bridge lab for resin crowns to be fabricated. Resin crowns were selected instead of traditional PFM upper crowns due to patient $$. I kept the model work so […]