Dr. Mustapha Hotait on mini dental implants vs regular implants
A mini dental implant is a treatment option that came out, you know, maybe 20, 25 years ago, and it was an option for certain patients to kind of cut on cost, okay? And also some patients had maybe very little jawbone, and we’re looking for something that’s very easy, very quick to kind of secure a denture. What we found over the years that it’s an option that really doesn’t survive the test of time, and we tend to see a lot of failures with that. We are more inclined to kind of, you know, place what we call regular dental implants that are bigger in size, that have more surface area for the bone to kind of grip on, to kind of, you know, survive over time, and it’s able to kind of receive the load from the jaw that usually mini implants can’t handle, and they end up, you know, unfortunately failing due to that.
So it’s definitely something that we don’t practice here.