MINI-IMPLANTS
The new, one-day Mini Dental Implant
For many years, dental implants have been used to stabilize partial and full dentures. However, this procedure has taken multiple appointments requiring surgery and significant healing time. Now, mini implants can be placed at one appointment, and can be utilized immediately after insertion. Mini Dental Implants are ultra-small diameter (1.8 millimeter width), bio-compatible titanium alloy implant screws.
What's the primary use for Mini Dental Implants?
The most effective use of this unique dental product is stabilization of a lower denture. There are approximately 50,000,000 people in the United States who are "edentulous" (literally meaning lacking teeth) who struggle daily with their dentures. A majority suffer a great deal of discomfort as a result of loose or ill-fitting dentures. Many denture wearers simply withdraw from any type of social engagement as a result of being compelled to wear them. Successful placement of the Mini Dental Implant addresses and solves these practical problems.
The new, one-day Mini Dental Implant
For many years, dental implants have been used to stabilize partial and full dentures. However, this procedure has taken multiple appointments requiring surgery and significant healing time. Now, mini implants can be placed at one appointment, and can be utilized immediately after insertion. Mini Dental Implants are ultra-small diameter (1.8 millimeter width), bio-compatible titanium alloy implant screws.
What's the primary use for Mini Dental Implants?
The most effective use of this unique dental product is stabilization of a lower denture. There are approximately 50,000,000 people in the United States who are "edentulous" (literally meaning lacking teeth) who struggle daily with their dentures. A majority suffer a great deal of discomfort as a result of loose or ill-fitting dentures. Many denture wearers simply withdraw from any type of social engagement as a result of being compelled to wear them. Successful placement of the Mini Dental Implant addresses and solves these practical problems.
But I’m just missing a few teeth. Can I benefit from Mini Dental Implants?
Under the right conditions Mini Dental implants can be used as fixed, permanent replacements for individual or groups of missing teeth. And the cost may actually be less that a traditional bridge.
How can Mini Dental Implants help denture wearers?
The standard insertion protocol for mini dental implants calls for four of them to be gently screwed into the front of a patient's lower jaw. This is a relatively painless procedure that can be performed right in our office, requiring only a mild anesthesia. The mini dental implants, which are approximately the size of wooden toothpicks, are placed about five millimeters apart in the patient's mandible. The patient's denture is then carefully adjusted by the dentist to allow it to snap on to the four mini implants. The result? A tight fitting, completely reliable system that allows a patient to speak and eat with confidence. The Mini Dental Implants are placed in about an hour's time. Because of the unique, minimally invasive procedure, the minute size of the implants, and the characteristic placement area, the typical Mini Dental Implant patient can enjoy a light meal an hour after having the mini implants placed.
How can Mini Dental Implants help denture wearers?
The standard insertion protocol for mini dental implants calls for four of them to be gently screwed into the front of a patient's lower jaw. This is a relatively painless procedure that can be performed right in our office, requiring only a mild anesthesia. The mini dental implants, which are approximately the size of wooden toothpicks, are placed about five millimeters apart in the patient's mandible. The patient's denture is then carefully adjusted by the dentist to allow it to snap on to the four mini implants. The result? A tight fitting, completely reliable system that allows a patient to speak and eat with confidence. The Mini Dental Implants are placed in about an hour's time. Because of the unique, minimally invasive procedure, the minute size of the implants, and the characteristic placement area, the typical Mini Dental Implant patient can enjoy a light meal an hour after having the mini implants placed.
How are Mini Dental Implants different?
As a revolutionary departure from routine dental implant methods, Mini Dental Implants are so narrow they are typically inserted directly through the overlying gum tissue and into the bone underneath. Consequently the need to surgically cut and "flap" open the gum tissue, routinely required for standard implant systems, is avoided in most Mini Dental Implant applications. As a result, post-insertion patient irritation and soreness is significantly reduced.
I've heard that standard dental implants are quite expensive. What about Mini-Dental Implants?
Mini Dental Implants are surprisingly affordable, at a fraction of the cost of the traditional implants. By choosing the Mini Dental Implant, you've chosen an enhanced way of life, free of a lot of the discomforts and heartaches of a loose or ill-fitting denture. That's worth a lot.
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