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Mini Dental Implant featured on KXAN-TV
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featured through Affordable Dentures in Austin, Texas.
Tuesday,
April 4, 2004
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Modern technology has
done it again. Normally, getting fitted for dentures takes
several months and many office visits.
Now, thanks to mini
dental implants, the entire procedure can be done in just one
day.
"It sounds
fantastic, and I just can't wait," dental implant recipient
Madeline Bambas said.
When's the last time you
heard that kind of enthusiasm from a patient awaiting dental
work?
Mini-dental implants or
MDI's are invoking that kind of reaction. Bambas lost her bottom
teeth after a car accident nearly 35 years ago. Eventually she
required upper dentures as well. But, as is often the case, her
lower dentures started giving her problems causing her to
drastically alter how and what she ate.
"Every time I put
these on and I chew, and these would go up and down, and my gums
would get so sore I couldn't eat, so I quit eating so
much," Bambas said.
"There's people that
go, that are literally dentally disabled and crippled for years
and years and years and they're almost hopeless. They haven't
sat down to a really good meal," dentist Dr. Gary Herron
said.
Herron of Affordable
Dentures in Austin is now helping people like Bambas to regain
their smiles and ability to eat what they want by fitting them
with mini dental implants -- pieces of metal barely a millimeter
wide that allow dentures to fit snugly without slipping. The
procedure can be done in a snap.
"Instead of me
having to drill into bone first, then place the implant and let
it heal for months and months and months, what I can do, is I
make a little bitty pilot hole, set the implant in there and
turn, it's almost like a wood screw," Herron said.
In less than an hour,
Bambas was fit with her MDI's and is ready to tackle a steak
dinner for the first time in about 20 years.
"I just can't wait
to eat the things I used to," Bambas said.
Bone structure and bone
density are the major factors which determine if someone is a
candidate for mini-dental implants.
Several dentists offices
in Central Texas perform the MDI procedure, however be sure to
shop around, because the cost can vary greatly.
For more information on
Affordable Dentures, you can 1-800-DENTURE
(336-8873) or check
out their Web site.
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