Mini dental implants can be a good choice where space is tight, for example, when restoring lower incisors which are the much smaller, narrower lower front teeth. Often there is insufficient room to place a conventional dental implant to restore a lower front tooth successfully.
People interested in using dental implants for dentures but who are unsuitable for bone grafting or who do not wish to have this procedure might be able to have mini dental implants. While mini dental implants can be an excellent solution in specific circumstances, it’s normally necessary to place a greater number of mini implants to hold the denture securely.
It is necessary to have a good amount of bone vertically in the jawbone, which we can easily assess when we take a cone-beam CT scan. Usually, we only use mini dental implants to secure lower dentures because the bone density of the upper jaw tends to be lower and less suitable for this implant procedure.