cronicaskaterbinas

When this gentleman who is generally healthy and a smoker to boot requested for help, it was quite a challenge. He could not eat properly because the upper denture tended to fall down and he had only a few lower front teeth left. Cost was not a big issue but he still preferred some savings if possible.  The options were presented and the choices were between standard implants or minis or a mix of them with the accompanying pros and cons. We started in December 2009 and completed in December 2010. It could have been earlier except that the gentleman had the lowers done first and tried it out for several months before he made the judgement call that minis do work and requested for minis for the uppers as well.  With all the pros and cons discussed and informed consent obtained, we proceeded to place in 12 minis or MOSTDIs as I like to call them. One was lost from the incisor area basically because the anterior ridge was extremely narrow. Nevertheless, 10 was enough. We cemented BUDs( Bri