Missing Teeth? Mini Dental Implants Can Help
It is estimated that over 50% of Americans are missing at least one tooth (not including wisdom teeth or third molars). Some of these missing teeth can be in the smile area. This picture shows a patient of mine that lost two of her teeth due to fractures in the root. She did not like [...]
read moreMini Dental Implant Upper Denture Tooth Bridge
Part II of the fixed hybrid bridge post. You can scroll down 1/2 into the web page to see the complete case… This is the finished product for our patient that came in just gagging on her upper denture. She wanted to have a solution that would allow her to have the roof of mouth not covered [...]
read moreMini Dental Implants – Small Diameter Implants Training Seminar & Education Lecture
Todd E. Shatkin DDS & Paresh B Patel DDS will teach in Dr. Shatkin's 1 and 2 day seminars on Nov 5th 2010 in Baltimore, MD and Dec 3rd in Pittsburg, PA: mini-implant placement and case selection treatment planning and case selection one stage denture stabilization; immediate implants and crowns full arch reconstruction with mini [...]
read moreMini Dental Implants to solve problems
I got a phone call last night from a Dentist friend of mine in Buffalo NY (one of the worlds best respected Mini Dental Implant clinicians). He had a patient of his from years ago that had a Resin Bonded Bridge that had now failed. She was an interesting young lady in grad school at [...]
read moreMini Dental Implants vs Traditional Implants
The next story is about a patient of mine named Storie….how bizarre. Well actually the patient is the wife of a patient of mine who had placed mini dental implants on to replace his existing partial denture. She had broken her tooth. X ray of broken premolar #13 I gave her the option of a [...]
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