What are the dimensions of the Sendax MDI Mini Dental Implants?
A. IMTEC, a 3M Company offers four MDI implant lengths. The company’s standard thread MDI’s are available in lengths of 10mm, 13mm, 15mm and 18mm and are available in 1.8mm, 2.1mm and 2.4mm diameters. The 2.4 MAX thread implant is designed for Type II or III bone. The wider thread design enables it to bite deeper into the host site. The MAX thread design will better engage very cancellous or marrow-filled bone primarily in the maxilla, but also in other locations where the bone may strip more readily and provide poor anchorage. These implants are made of high quality titanium alloy, consisting of Ti-6AL-4V. In fact, a 1997 test study at the University of Alabama at Birmingham clearly established that the MDI titanium alloy implants the company sells are much stronger than CP titanium products. More recently, the company commissioned a torque and dynamic loading study from the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta, which concluded that after 5,000,000 cycles of force, each ranging from
