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What Are MDI Implants?
The MDI System consists of a miniature titanium implant that acts like the root of your tooth and a retaining fixture that is incorporated into the base of your denture. The head of the implant is shaped like a ball, and the retaining fixture acts like a socket that contains a rubber O-ring. The O-ring snaps over the ball when the denture is seated and holds the denture at a predetermined level of force. When seated, the denture gently rests on the gum tissue. The implant fixtures allow for micro-mobility while withstanding natural lifting forces. |
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How Are MDI Implants Placed?
Placement of the implants is accomplished quickly and easily in a process performed in the dentist’s office, with local anesthesia or light sedation to help make you more comfortable. Using a precise, controlled, minimally invasive surgical technique, MDI Implants are placed into the jawbone. The heads of the implants protrude form the gum tissue and provide a strong, solid foundation for securing your dentures. It is a one-step procedure that involves minimally invasive surgery, no sutures, nor the typical months of healing. |
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What Will My First Day Be Like?
Leave the denture in place until your doctor instructs you to remove it. You should not experience any excessive bleeding. There will be some mild discomfort, but this should be minimal and controlled by the pain medication you have been given. If needed, take the pain medication only as directed. The denture should feel secure. You may eat as soon as you wish to, but avoid excessively hard or sticky foods for a period of time recommended by your dentist. Upon removing the denture, rinse your mouth with antiseptic mouthwash and gently clean around each implant fixture with a cotton swab and toothpaste. Use a cotton swab for three days. After that, use your special toothbrush that will be provided for you. It has been specifically designed to clean your implants and gently stimulate the surrounding gum tissue. |
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How Do I Place and Remove My Dentures?
The implants and the O-ring fixtures must be clean and free from debris. Grasp the denture with both hands and light seat the denture, feeling that the O-rings are resting above the ball head of the implants, then press down firmly and equally on both sides. Make sure that you feel the implants heads easily fitting each O-ring. You will feel the denture snap into place. If you have trouble seating your denture, first make sure that the implants and denture are absolutely clean. Secondly, make sure that you feel the implants resting over each socket. A light touch will give you the best results. Remember to push downward equally on both sides. If you are still experiencing difficulty, see if a spouse or family member can assist you in placing the denture.
To remove the denture, place your thumbs under each side or the lower denture rim and push both sides upward at the same time. The tongue can also assist in the simple removal process. Use normal pressure in an upward motion. |
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What About Care and Maintenance?
You must brush and clean the ball of the implants as if they were your natural teeth. As with natural teeth, food and bacterial debris (plaque) must be removed after meals. If not removed, the plaque will cause inflammation of the gums and can be forced into the O-ring fixtures, causing improper seating and loss of retention. The O-ring fixtures must also be cleaned out. |
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Is the MDI FDA approved?
Yes! After research clinical trials and exhaustive studies, a formal application was filed with the FDA in Washington D.C. seeking permission to market the Mini Dental Implant devices to the general public. After providing satisfactory technical and clinical evidence to that federal agency that the product was safe for public use and in fact had beneficial attributes, the FDA granted its formal consent to market the MDI device not only as a transitional or temporary dental product, but significantly, as a long-term device. The MDI was the first mini dental implant to receive long-term approval. |
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What’s the primary and most effective use for them?
The most effective use of this unique dental product is stabilization of a mandibular denture. There are approximately 30,000,000 people in the United States who are “edentulous” (literally meaning lacking teeth) who struggle daily with prosthetic devices. A majority suffers a great deal of discomfort as a result of loose or ill-fitting dentures. Also, many denture wearers simply withdraw from any type of social engagement as a result of being compelled to wear them. Moreover, it’s no uncommon for family members to complain about a denture wearer’s disagreeable breath as a result of food being trapped and decaying under their denture prosthesis. Successful placement of the MDI addresses and solves all of these social and practical problems and concerns. IMTEC has received numerous testimonials from patients around the country who have seen their lives dramatically changed by the MDI. |
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What type of surgery is involved?
A single, minimally invasive surgery is needed for insertion of the MDI Mini Dental Implants. They are then put into immediate biting or “loading” function thanks to their “self-tapping” design, thereby anchoring a fixed bridge system. As a result, it is often possible to provide the complete mini implant service in a single office visit. |
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What about failures?
It must be recognized that all implant systems as well as natural teeth are subject to potential failure due to natural causes, including osteoporosis, poor oral hygiene, wear and tear attrition, poor health, stressful biting habits, and lack of follow-up dental maintenance care. Mini implants similarly do not carry and actual or implied guarantee of longevity. However, the loss of a mini implant is a far less critical event to the patient since it may be replaced at relatively minimal cost compared to larger conventional implants, and with minimal associated bone or gum deterioration. Case failures involving mini implants are extremely rare. |
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Imagine This!
Visit your dentist in the morning, have the “Mini-Implant System” placed in less that two hours, then go out and enjoy your favorite lunch. Eat comfortable, have a pleasant conversation, laugh and talk with confidence. Your denture feels secure and is being held firmly in place….and all of this at an extremely affordable price. Sounds too good to be true, but it is true. It’s a “Small Wonder”! |
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How Does MDI Technology Broaden My Options?
Dental implant therapy has been one of the most significant advances in dentistry in the past 25 years. Tens of thousands of grateful patients bear witness to the benefits derived from the opportunity to obtain a replacement for lost teeth that restores their smiles and confidence. Several different types of implants and restorations are available. The choice depends on the amount of bone available, the patient’s general health and restoration preference. The computer and medical worlds are both working hard to develop small and smaller components. In similar fashion, a smaller version of the dental implant has been successfully utilized in selected cases. These mini implants (1.8mm diameter) enable your dentist to broaden the spectrum of patients that can be treated. The Sendax MDI System was developed in order to provide greater denture stability for those patients who cannot withstand the rigors of conventional implant surgery, do not have enough bone to allow for full0sized implants to be placed, or are in on-going therapy from one prosthetic system to another. |
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