rt >>> WELCOME BACK TO THE SHOW. TODAY WHY MANY DENTAL IMPLANTSrt MIGHT BE GREAT CHOICE FOR YOU. THEY ARE AFFORDABILITY AND CAN HELP STABLIZE LOOSE DENTURES.rt DR. GRANT LEMKE IS THE OWNER OF CLOUD 9 DENTISTRY HE JOINS US NOW WITH MORE ABOUT MINIDENTAL IMPLANTS AND DENTURES TOO. GREAT TO SEE YOU. >> THANK YrtOU FOR HAVING ME IN. >> THE NAME IS CALLED CLOUD 9. TELL US ABOUT HOW LONG YOU HAVE BEEN IN PRACTICE AND WHAT YOU DO SPECIFICALLY. >>rt WELL, I HAVE BEEN IN GENERAL DENTAL PRACTICE OVER 30 YEARS.
WE'VE BEEN DOING IMPLANTS FOR ABOUT 20 YEARS AND ABOUT 5 YEARS OF MINIIMPLANTS. >>rt I'M GLAD YOU BROUGHT UP MINIIMPLANTS. I THINK FOR PEOPLE WHO NEED THEM JUST THE WORD MINI, MAYBE EVEN SOUNDS A LITTLE LESSrt INTIMIDATING. >> WELL IT IS. IT'S A WAY OF STABLIZING SOMEBODY'S DENTURE THAT IS LESS INVASIVE, LESS PAINFUL, ITrt HEALS FASTER, FEWER VISITS SOMETHING I'M EXCITED ABOUT BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE GOING FOR IT IN A BIG WAY. >> WHAT ARE MINIDENTALrt IMPLANTS? WE'RE LOOKING AT A PICTURE HERE WHERE IT SEEMS TO ILLUSTRATE THE POINT OF WHAT ACTUALLY GOES INTOrt A PERSON'S BONE STRUCTURE RIGHT? >> CORRECT. >> IT WAS DISCOVERED YEARS AGO IF YOU PUT TITANIUM SCREWS IN BONE, THE BONE WILL GROWrt INTO IT. AND, THE ORIGINAL STANDARD IMPLANTS THAT HAVE HAVE BEEN USED FOR 30 YEARS ARE EFFECTIVE AT STABLIZIrtNG DENTURES. PEOPLE HAVE HAD PROBLEMS WITH COST. SO, MY PATIENTS WOULD COME TO ME AND SAY GEE I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE THIS, BUT IT COSTS A LOT OF MONEY.rt I FOUND THERE WERE THESE MINIIMPLANTS WHICH WERE ALMOST HALF THE COST. AND THEY DO AS WELL OF A JOB AS THE STANDARD IMPLANTS.
>> HOW DO YOU EXPLArtIN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MINIIMPLANTS AND THE MORE TRADITIONAL OR NORMAL IMPLANTS THAT WE'RE USED TO? >> THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION. THErt STANDARD IMPLANTS ARE LARGE, BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO HAVE A SCREW HOLE THROUGH THE CENTER OF THEM. >> SO WE'RE LOOKING AT THE DIFFERENCE IN THE SIZE OF THE HOLE IT SEEMS TO BE. >>rt RIGHT. >> IT'S MORE OF A SURGICAL PROCEDURE TO PLACE THAT KIND OF HOLE IN SOMEBODY'S JAW BONE.
THE HUMAN JAW IS ONLY SO WIDE. SO IF YOU PUT A SMALLER HOLE IN,rt THERE IS LESS TRAUMA, THERE IS LESS DIFFICULTY IN HEALING, THERE IS LESS OF EVERYTHING. AND THE MINIIMPLANT IS MAYBE 2 OR 3-MILLIMETER AT THE MOSTrt IN DIAMETER WHERE AS THE TRADITIONAL COULD BE 6-MILLIMETER. THERE IS ONLY SO MUCH JAW BONE YOU HAVE AND YOU NEED TO HAVErt SOMETHING THAT FITS INSIDE THE JAW. >> DON'T ALL OF US OVER TIME LOSE SOME OF THE BONE SO SOMETIMES PEOPLE HAVE DIMINISHED BONE STRUCTURE SO THERE IrtS LESS TO WORK WITH.
>> YES. WHAT HAPPENS IS IF YOU DON'T BRUSH AND FLOSS THE BONE STARTS TO DETERIORATE IT WILLrt DISAPPEAR AROUND YOUR TEETH AND WHEN YOU HAVE A TOOTH EXTRACTED BETWEEN 30 AND 60% OF THE BONE DISAPPEAR WHEN IS A TOOTH IS EXTRACTED. WHEN SOMEBODY HAS ALL OF THEIR rtTEETH EXTRACTED THE WHOLE RIDGE GOES DOWN, DOWN, DOWN THROUGHOUT YOUR LIFE AND MANY INDIVIDUAL WHE rtWHEN THEY BECOME HIGHER IN AGE, DECADES AND DECADES OF NOT HAVING TEETH THE BONE HAS GONE DOWN SO FAR THERE IS HARDLY ANYTHING FrtOR THE DENTURE TO REST ON.
THEY ARE SADDLED WITH PAINFUL, ILL FITTING. IT'Srt A CONSTANT LIFESTYLE CHALLENGE FOR THESE PEOPLE. >> ARE MINIDENTAL IMPLANTS FOR JUST ONE MISSING TOOTH SO PEOPLE WHO HAVE LOST ONE TOOTH IS THAT WHAT THEY ARE USED FOR OR CrtAN YOU USE IT FOR MORE THAN ONE TOOTH? >> THAT'S ANOTHER SESSION. BUT, WE DO DO INDIVIDUAL TEETH, JUST, THE OrtTHER DAY, A FELLOW HAD A REMOVABLE PARTIAL WHICH HE TOOK IN AND OUT ALL THE TIME. HE HAD FOUR TEETHrt ACROSS THE FRONT THEY WERE UNEVEN AND DIDN'T MATCH THE COLOR. HE CAME INrt WE HAD INDIVIDUAL IMPLANTS PUT IN. WE PUT CROWNS ON IT. WHEN HE WALKED OUTrt HIS WIFE CRIED SHE SAID HE LOOKS LIKE THE GUY I MARRIED NOW CAN YOU DO SOMETHING ABOUT HIS HAIR? >> HAIR IS Art WHOLE ANOTHER STORY. >>> LET'S TALK ABOUT DENTURES BECAUSE YOU MENTIONED SOMETIMES PEOPLE HAVE EXISTING DENTURES, BUT STILL MAY NEEDrt MINIIMPLANTS SO CAN YOU ATTACH SOMEONE'S EXISTING DENTURE TO A MINIIMPLANT? >> YES. THE STATISTICS FROMrt THE GOVERNMENT SAY THAT THERE IS OVER 40 MILLION PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES WHO HAVE NO TEETH AT ALL.
>> WOW. >> OKAY. >> AND BY THE WAY WE'RErt LOOKING AT THIS EXAMPLE HERE. >> YOU CAN SEE FROM THE GRAPHICS THERE IF WE PLACE THOSE KINDS OF IMPLANTS IN THERE WE CAN BUILD EITHER THAT KIND OF RESTORATION ORrt SOMETHING THAT HAS FLANGES MORE LIKE A DENTURE. WE CAN DO VARIOUS THINGS.rt AN EXISTING DENTURE MANY TIMES PEOPLE COME IN AND THE DENTURE IS PERFECT, BUT THE UNDER SIZE OF IT MOVES AROUNDrt AND PINCHES THEIR GUMS AND THEY ARE MISERABLE. WE EVEN HAD A FAMILY WHERE A LADY CAME IN AND HER BROTHER PAID TO HAVE MINIIMPLANTS FOR HER BECAUSE SHE'S BEErtN COMPLAINING SO MANY DECADES.
SHE WAS EATING CORN ON THE COULDrt THE COB THE NEXT DAY. >>> WE NEED TO EVALUATE SOMEONE'S HISTORY. WE HAVE A THREErt DIMENSIONAL X-RAY MACHINE WHERE WE CAN SEE THINGS FROM ALL DIFFERENT ANGLES AND IN THREE DIMENSIONS. WE DO AN ORAL EXAMINATION AND WE HAVE Art THING GOING ON RIGHT NOW WHERE IF SOMEONE WOULD LIKE TO FIND OUT IF THEY ARE CANDIDATES OR NOT THEY MAY STOP IN AND WE'LL DO AN EXAMINATION AND THErt RADIO GRAPH GRAPHS COMPLIMENTARY RIGHT NOW. >> THAT'S WONDERFUL.rt COMPLIMENTARY THAT'S A $900 VALUE. rtrt rtrt rtrt rtrt rtrt rtrt rtrt rtrt rt rtrt rtrt rtrt rtrt rtrt rtrt rtrt rtrt rt rtrt rtrt rtrt rtrt
