I got a phone call last night from a Dentist friend of mine in Buffalo NY (one of the worlds best respected Mini Dental Implant clinicians). He had a patient of his from years ago that had a Resin Bonded Bridge that had now failed. She was an interesting young lady in grad school at […]
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 […]
The next story is about a patient of mine named Storie….how bizarre. Well actually the patient is the wife of a patient of mine who had placed mini dental implants on to replace his existing partial denture. She had broken her tooth. X ray of broken premolar #13 I gave her the option of a […]
As promised here are the photos for the mini implant crown to replace a missing molar tooth. In this example of using mini implants for a crown 3 minis were used to replace the three roots on the missing upper molar. 3 Intra Lock Mini Dental Implants in tooth #3 position We have been using […]
What do you do when its Friday afternoon and this walks in with a crying patient attached to it? Well I looked in the tool box and thankfully I had a stash. No not anything illegal but a stash of Intra Lock Mini Dental Implants from Shatkin FIRST Labs. Jay Moore (the well respected and […]
Ok…so more than 6 weeks have passed since the blog about the mini dental implants and do they hurt. But the patient has finally come back and we took the impression for her crowns. If you need to scroll down to the original post you can see the teeth that were extracted and the mini […]
One of the most prevalent dental conditions is missing upper laterals (about 10% of the population is missing these teeth from birth). Some of the time, even with orthodontics, there is not enough space to restore the missing teeth with traditional implants (implants with a diameter greater than 3.0 mm). Most of the patients I […]
At the last Annual meeting for Mini Implant Dentists a friend of mine, Dr. Steve Brown, showed several of his cases where he used one mini dental implant for each root on a missing tooth. Of course I thought, huh? Not a bad idea, but is there really space? To confirm I spoke with Valdi […]
Ok..after a few weeks of procrastination I have finally got the pictures off the digital camera and am ready to share the initial results of the Ken Clifford Fixed Mini Implant Bridge. To read Part I scroll down in the main blog to the Ken Clifford Bridge Post. To clarify, the acrylic bridge is totally […]
Mini Dental Implants for Single Crown Our patient today, as it seems like most these days…seem to know WAY more about implant placement than I would have ever thought. Charlotte had braces years ago and was going to get an implant to replace her missing lower premolar tooth. As we all know, life has […]