I am convinced that teeth know what day of the week it is. Why is it always 5pm on Friday that teeth in the front smile area seem to break? I don't have a great answer but I do have some mini dental implants and some composite. The patient was given […]
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 […]
A leader in the dental laboratory market has introduced a new mini dental implant. The Inclusive Mini Dental Implant System provides the dentists all the components necessary to start and finish a high quality mini implant retained overdenture. This package includes the final overdenture, four Inclusive Mini Implants, surgical drill, impression copings, analogs, O-ring housings and all […]
It is estimated that over 50% of Americans are missing at least one tooth (not including wisdom teeth or third molars). Some of these missing teeth can be in the smile area. This picture shows a patient of mine that lost two of her teeth due to fractures in the root. She did not like […]
Having done thousands of mini dental implants more and more of my patients are now asking why they can’t have fixed crowns or fixed teeth with dental bridges. Well no real reason if they have enough bone to place a few more mini dental implants. My patient when we first put in 6 mini dental […]
My next patient is a great example of how versatile mini dental implants can be. Lower ridge with 2 teeth left. Patient has been wearing an all acrylic partial denture. He is going to do a sequenced treatment plan where we place 4 mini dental implants and make a full lower denture. As he is […]
I get asked this question a lot from both Doctors and Patients. I think a better way to look at this is to compare one or two piece dental implants. Mini dental implants are one piece in design…the part that comes up into the gum is connected to the screw part that goes into the […]
My next patient is a great example of how versatile mini dental implants can be. Lower ridge with 2 teeth left. Patient has been wearing an all acrylic partial denture. He is going to do a sequenced treatment plan where we place 4 mini dental implants and make a full lower denture. As he is […]
I get asked this question a lot from both Doctors and Patients. I think a better way to look at this is to compare one or two piece dental implants. Mini dental implants are one piece in design…the part that comes up into the gum is connected to the screw part that goes into the […]
What do you do when there is a small space between lower front teeth and you need a mini dental implant? There are lots of choices out there, IMTEC MDI, Intra Lock, OCO Biomedical, HiOssen…all these companies make a nice mini dental implant. In this case I decided to try the Ace Surgical miniMarkMini Prep Implant. […]