Mini Dental Implants Buffalo, NY

Mini Dental Implants Buffalo, NY
Drs. Benjamin & Julia Oppenheimer

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24 months 0% Financing available for all implant procedures!

2000 Eggert Road
Amherst, NY 14226


About Benjamin D. Oppenheimer, DDS, FICOI

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Amherst, NY, United States
Dr. Benjamin D. Oppenheimer is a graduate of the University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine. There he received a Dean's letter for Academic Excellence as well as the International Congress of Oral Implantologists award. He is now one of the leading experts in the world on Mini Dental Implants and a fellow of the ICOI. He has taught hundreds of dentists to use minis and has served as a consultant to the IMTEC Corporation, the manufacturer of the MDI product as well as Dental tech laboratories, Evolution Dental, Global Dental Sciences. He currently is a Key opinion leader to 3M ESPE Dental Implants. He is also the author of a number of scientific journal articles on the subjects of dental implants, bone grafting, mini dental implants and Cone Beam CT for dentistry. As well as offering dental implants, Dr. Ben provides all aspects of patient care for adults and children in Amherst, NY a suburb of Buffalo NY. He focuses on dental implant treatment in his buffalo office. Dr. Oppenheimer has also served as a business consultant for Jenius Industries Inc. and VBS Holdings LLC. He currently is a Member of Apex dental solutions, LLC, a mini implant marketing agency.

Best Patients for Mini Dental Implants

I just got back from training 26 dentists from all over the country on mini dental implants. In these advanced courses I focus on helping the dentists increase the predictability of their mini dental implant cases. I have given presentations over 50 times on this subject and the same question comes up almost every course. Every body, Dentists and patients, want to know 'who is the best candidate for mini dental implant over-dentures'? Well, over the years I have helped hundreds of patients stabilize dentures in my dental office in Buffalo, NY with implants. Most often, patients are looking for a fast, easy and cost effective solution for their loose dentures. Accordingly, I recommend and patients often opt for the mini implants as opposed to standard diameter ones. In this post I'm not going to go into the benefits of one over the other, rather discuss the best candidates for the minis.

In my opinion, there are two types of patients who are ideal candidates for MDI (mini dental implant) over-dentures. Firstly, a patient who has been wearing lower dentures for decades and has suffered the inevitable, significant bone resorption in both height and width. Most of these patients cannot wear their denture at all or if they do the denture shifts and moves all around and is extremely uncomfortable. At this point, all the denture adhesive in the world won't help the patient. These people may have been seeking help from dentists who place traditional dental implants and have been either offered a very expensive and time consuming procedure involving bone grafting or have been told that they are "not a candidate" for implants because of lack of bone. Mini dental implants are great options for these patients. The second group of patients who benefit most from the MDI are those who have had all their lower teeth removed and have had a lower immediate denture placed and been trying to adjust to it for about a year. In this situation the patient has had about a year of bone healing which is ideal for the minis. Some people will never be comfortable with a lower denture just need implants to be comfortable. These patients benefit from the immediate stability the MDIs offer and the newer immediate denture can often be used with the mini implants to decrease costs.

Opportunities abound with new technology in dental implants today. If you fall into any of the groups above consider mini implants to solve your problems. If you live in the Buffalo and Western NY area call Dr. Oppenheimer at 716-418-7272 to schedule a free consultation on mini implants. If you are outside the area, go to mini dental implant solutions to find a qualified MDI dentist near you.