The most common indication for Mini Dental Implants

The single most widely used application of Mini Dental Implants is for stabilization of lower full dentures. Four or five mini dental implants inserted into the lower jaw, without major gum and bone surgery, minimum local anesthesia, no sutures, very minimal post-operative pain, is the ideal situation for the patient and the dentist. The cost factor of the mini dental implants to the patient is also more tolerable than comparable standard implants.
However, the bone in the upper jaw is generally less dense that in the lower jaw. As a result, mini dental implants are usually less firm in the upper jaw than in the lower jaw, and are often loose right at the time of placement or become loose soon after the upper denture starts taking support from the mini dental implants. As a result, the wider standard implants may be better in the upper jaw.
I will talk about the use of the mini dental implants for crowns and bridges soon.
I have more details at my website http://www.newtownfamilydentistry.com/ or http://www.pearldentalpa.com/

Mini Dental Implants Contraindications

Though Mini Dental Implants cost a lot less than standard dental implants and also involve less invasive surgery and shorter healing time, there are many situations where mini dental implants simply cannot act as a substitute for the standard, wider implants.
If you have a fractured tooth right in the front of your mouth and a root canal, post and crown would not be feasible or would have questionable success, your best case scenario would be to extract the tooth and insert an implant right away, immediately following the extraction. This is where you would like to have a mini dental implant inserted, especially since it is less expensive. However, mini dental implants have to be inserted into dense, mature, fully healed bone where the extraction site of the fractured tooth is healed up completely. On the day of the extraction, the extraction site is still too wide open and so the mini implant will not anchor. Even with bone grafting, filling up of the socket with dense, mature bone could take months. On the other hand, a standard implant could very easily be inserted into the extraction site and possibly even be used to support a temporary crown on it the very same day.

In my next post I will write about situations where the mini dental implants would be the preferable method of treatment and work very well. In particular, I have had very good results with 3M Espe (IMTEC) mini dental implants.

Please come back again. In the meantime, for photos of various mini dental implant applications, go to my site at www.newtownfamilydentistry.com