What Is A Mini Implant?
There are a lot of choices a person can pick from when they need to have artificial teeth installed. There are dentures and what is also called a mini implant for the mouth. A mini implant is becoming the more popular choice for many patients, including the ease of installing, the cost, the recovery time and the satisfaction with the end result. What exactly is this mini implant?
The device is actually a few pieces that work together to make one unit. There are titanium pegs inserted in to a person’s gum, in the top, the bottom or both, where they attach to the actual denture pieces. There are two to six pegs, depending on how many teeth need to be replaced. To go in to a person’s gum. Then, once they are set, the denture pieces snap over the top and are stuck in place until they are taken out.
Since the gums are inserted in to the gums, the patient does not need to have oral surgery. A local anesthetic is used to numb the area and then the pegs are inserted in with minimal incisions or cutting. Since the procedure is minimally invasive, there is a lot less pain during the procedure. A mini implant can be done in one morning or one afternoon and the patient is usually well enough to work the next day.
Since the procedure for installing the pegs to the mini implant is fairly quick, there is less pain, swelling and tenderness afterwards. Old denture fitting used t be very painful and take the person a week to recover from. In most cases, the patient only needs to take over the counter pain medicine if there is any discomfort or swelling.
Having a mini implant in your mouth is much less expensive than what older, traditional sets of dentures used to cost. Many people could never afford dentures before, especially if their insurance didn’t cover it. Now, the process takes less time, therefore it also costs much less. It is easier for the patients to be able to afford if insurance only covers a part or none of the procedure expense.
The mini implant is more convenient once it is put in the mouth. Since the teeth snap over the titanium pegs, there are no adhesives or creams needed between the gums and the teeth plates. The pegs handle it all and make slipping virtually impossible. The person can eat what they like and they can talk freely, whisper, yell or whatever and the teeth will not budge once they are snapped over the pegs correctly.
A mini implant is easy to take care of. It is simply cleaned when the person feels the need to clean them. They don’t require special soaking or treatment as often as a regular pair of dentures would because the adhesive isn’t stuck on the bottom of them. Since there aren’t any expenses associated with them after they are installed also makes them more affordable for people as well.
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