Mini Dental Implants Questions?!

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1) How long do they last? is it worth the money? It is worth the monet, they can last a lifetime and they prevent your bone from shrinking
2) Do they break easy...like if i were to fall? They do not break, they are made of Titanium, a super strong material. They can fall for some reasons: a) You are a heavy smoker/drinker/drugabuse or you do not clean them properly and get an infection
3) what if they do break do you have to pay for more..? They do not break, but if they fail yes you have to put them again
4) what if the whole thing fails There is no reason why they should fail

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Mini implants are toothpick sized titanium/aluminum screws that can be placed in alveolar or cortical bone without making an incision in the overlying ridge. Just drill a hole and screw them in. They can be used in maxillary or mandibular arches with sufficient bone depth and density. They are 1.8mm, 2.1mm, or 2.4mm in diameter. They are placed using nothing more than a single pilot drill 1.1mm in diameter (sometimes slightly larger for the larger sized minis). They can be loaded immediately.

First, if the patient has been without teeth for a very long time, bone resorption (the melting away of bone due to loss of teeth) may have reduced the depth of bone available to retain a mini implant.

Second, there may not be enough vertical bone because of the proximity of the maxillary sinuses or the mandibular canal. The sinuses are essentially holes occupying space in the jawbone above the roots of the natural back teeth. The sinuses may be quite large in some people, and they may extend too far forward to allow placement of mini implants posterior to the original location of the canine teeth. The mandibular canal contains the neurovascular bundle which supplies feeling to the lower teeth and lips. It runs just beneath the roots of the lower teeth.

Most of the time, the maximum number of mini implants that can be placed in the mandibular (lower) arch is four or five. In the maxillary (upper) arch, four or six 2.1, 2.4 or 2.9 mm mini implants are frequently used.



Step by step description of surgery

The following describes the manual placement of the smaller mini implants in a lower jaw in which the ridge is reasonably wide and no incision is needed. Note that all implants are placed in the anterior of the ridge, about where the six front teeth used to be located. Mini implants cannot be placed along the back part of the ridge where the molars used to be because in those locations, there is a large nerve trunk which might be injured if an implant was placed there.

On the day of Surgery, the dentist determines the correct position for each of (generally) four implants and then marks the position for each on the ridge with an indelible marker. Anesthesia is injected into the gums directly over the spots he/she made on the gums. Then the dentist begins to drill right through the gums into the bone using a 1.1 mm pilot drill in a slow speed handpiece