Even if your dentures are fit to perfection, they may still wonder or “float” now and then — especially your lower dentures. A floating lower denture can make it difficult to eat and embarrassing to talk. Fortunately, there is a denture stabilization system that can fix the problem – mini dental implants.
Dentists started using MDI dental implants as a dental stabilization system in the 1970s, but they weren’t considered “permanent” implant devices by the FDA until 1999. Since then, mini dental implants have become a favorite solution of patients and dentists for stabilizing a floating lower denture.
Like traditional dental implants, MDI dental implants are rooted into your jaw bone through oral surgery and act as a retaining fixture. But there are several differences: Mini dental implants are used for the lower jaw bone exclusively, usually to secure a lower denture but sometimes to support a dental crown. MDI dental implants are also smaller than traditional dental implants and, in most cases, can be placed in just one visit. Best of all, MDI implants can be 60-70 percent less expensive than traditional dental implants!
OCO Biomedical has truly revolutionized the over-denture stabilization market when they introduced the patented O-Ball/O-Ring attachment system for removable prosthesis in 1980. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, OCO worked diligently with the dental implant community to produce a subsequential generation of innovative dental implants such as first one-piece, full-sized implant: the ISI.