Mini Dental Implant (MDI) is the miniature form of dental implant made
of titanium that in turn acts as an artificial tooth root replacement.
This mini dental implant is mainly designed to retain dentures.
Mini Dental
Implantation Procedure
The traditional dental implant is comprised of two pieces – an implant
and an abutment on top of it. But mini dental implant is comprised of
one piece screw made of titanium. The head of the screw is ball shaped.
At the denture’s base, there is a socket-like connector incorporated.
The head of the titanium screw is snapped into the connector. The connector
establishes its connection using rubber o-ring which is provided inside
the connector. Sufficient force has to be given to ensure that the denture
do not move while using such as while eating. Thus connection is established.
If more force is applied, dentures will be removed.
The whole
mini dental implant procedure is very simple and quick. Once a small pilot
hole is drilled in the jaw bone, the mini dental implant is screwed in
the hole. It is screwed fully until only the ball head is seen.
The connectors and the dentures have to be correctly positioned while
placing the dentures on the mini dental implant. If the mini dental implant
replaces tooth, then restoration should be done.
Mini dental
implant is preferred in single root tooth replacement cases. It is also
preferred when the tooth position is in such a way that it do not require
more force to be exerted on the implant for any reason.
Advantages
of Mini Dental Implant
• It follows an easy procedure.
• It has higher success rate.
• It is of 2 mm dimension, smaller when compared to traditional dental
implants which are of dimension 4 mm – 5.75 mm.
• Mini dental implant is preferred in cases where the position of
dental implant is narrow.
• Its main advantage is that it is thinner when compared to dental
implants.
• Its price is lower than conventional dental implants. It is nearly
60% less.
• The mini dental implant procedure can be completed in only one
stage whereas the dental implant procedure comprises of two stages.
• The mini dental implant procedure takes less than two hours to
complete. This is because the surgical technique involved in mini dental
implant is minimally invasive which means no cutting osz v n ,,,,,,,,
n f gums and no removal of stitches.
• As the whole procedure can be completed in two hours without any
changes or disturbance to your regular daily activities, it is also called
as “single day implants” as well as “same day implants”.
