What are mini dental implants?

Mini dental implants are titanium screw-like implants with ball-shaped head and O-ring that attaches to your false tooth on top. Mini dental implants are effective shorter implants for those people with weak and low density bone in their jaws.

Filling out missing teeth with dental implant is the most popular, durable and stable procedure for replacing your lost teeth, but persons who don’t have enough density in their jawbones to support dental implants sometimes should undergo other procedures like bone grafting (bone making) to get a conventional dental implant.

Therefore, their cost will increase and they may give up on having a dental implant. Mini dental implants are suitable if you don’t have enough jaw bone density and bone quality to get the traditional dental implants.

Uses of mini dental implant

Dentists use mini dental implants mostly for replacing smaller sized teeth and in areas where there is less bite force. Because too much bite force and heavy pressures may decrease the stability of the mini dental implants, dentists will choose whether mini dental implants are a good choice or not depending on your tooth site and your bone condition.

Mini dental implants are used in the following ways:

• Where jaw bone is weak and there is a lack of bone mass in your gums

• To replace your lost teeth in the lower and upper front teeth(incisor teeth)

• To replace small areas of your missing tooth with not enough interdental space, which regular implants may cause damages to the root of other teeth

• To hold and retain your dentures firmly in place for the elderly who want a comfortable and well-fit denture type

• In implant-supported dentures, where regular implants can’t be used due to bone loss

• As anchorage in orthodontics to retain braces and other fixed appliances