Dr. Paresh B Patel's interview on Charlotte Today. Click to watch patient comments on their experience with mini dental implants for an upper and lower full denture and mini dental implant for a fixed porcelain crown. Paresh B Patel DDS Dentist Mooresville NC Mini Dental Implants
One of the main reasons patients don't move forward with dental implant treatment is lack of bone. This lack of adequate bone can be in the width or height dimensions. Cone Beam CT scan showing a lower mandibular ridge with severe resorption in both the vertical and horizontal dimensions. The ridge of bone is only 1.2mm […]
Mini Dental Implants ~ Are they bad? Do they work? Can you unscrew them with your fingers? Do the break? Can you use a mini implant on the upper arch? And many more…… I get lots of questions from Dentists and Patients alike on Mini Dental Implants. The short answer is if used and placed properly […]
Our next patient was missing one of his front teeth….well actually he is missing a few of his teeth. However our plan is to replace these missing upper teeth with mini dental implants and crowns a few at a time as he can afford to do so. He has an upper […]
It seems here lately we have had a lot of patients come in that are unhappy, frustrated and just don't like their partial dentures. They specifically want to just get rid of it and replace it with some mini dental implants and a set of porcelain crowns or porcelain bridges. Photo of my patients […]
The uses for a mini dental implant never stop amazing me. Today we had a fella come in who had broken his lower little front tooth. Clinical photo of the broken lower front tooth….it was broken below the level of the gum tissue. So I decided to extract the root tip […]
Another good use for mini dental implants is when we have a failing bridge or a tooth that has had a failing root canal treatment. Our next case is a patient that came to see us after having pain with her temporary bridge. Her old bridge she told me was wobbling around and her dentist told […]
Mini Dental Implants were originally used to Secure lower dentures….but they can be used for much more. From replacing a single missing tooth to replacing several missing teeth to a full arch of missing teeth with a fixed porcelain bridge. Mini Implants ranging in size from 1.8mm~2.0~2.3mm~2.5mm~up to 2.9mm. Anything over 3.0mm gets in my […]
This is actually a case that was done last year. My patient came in for his 6 month cleaning about 6 months late…. Not what I like for patients to do. But he was certainly not the ideal patient and I explained that to him prior to committing my time, energy and mini implants to […]
Mini Dental Implants have a wide variety of uses. I find more and more uses for this as a General Dentist. I think in a matter of time mini implant dentistry will become everyday dentistry. As routine as getting a filling. Mini Dental Implants in the lower jaw. With 4 mini implants in […]