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| microimplants 9ed. (Jun.2019) |
AbsoAnchor® Microimplants
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There are many terms used in orthodontic skeletal anchorage, such as, “skeletal anchorage system (SAS)”,
“mini screw”, “micro screw”, “mini implant”, “micro implant”,
”mini screw implant”, “micro screw implant”, “temporary anchorage device (TAD)”,
etc. A prefix of ‘micro’ comes from Greek and ‘mini’ comes from English. The terms, ‘micro’ and ‘mini’, have the same meaning of being small w hen they are used as adjective. Generally, however, the term ‘micro’ is used to express a size that is a little bit smaller than ‘mini’, such as mini car and micro car, mini scan disk and micro scan disk. Academically the term of ‘micro’ is used more rather than ‘mini’, for example, micrognathia, microglossia, microdontia, etc. Also, implantologists already used the term “mini implant”, which is a kind of temporary implant to make temporary crown during osseointegration of implant. The diameter of prosthodontic “mini implant” is a bit larger than orthodontic implants. The term skeletal anchorage can include all kinds of skeletal anchorage devices including prosthodontic implants and onplants. Many doctors are using the term “temporary anchorage device ”, however, almost all kinds of conventional anchorage, such as transpalatal bar, lingual arch, etc. can be classified into temporary anchorage device. Prosthodontic implants vary from screw implants to non screw type implants. Usually, however, we do not differentiate them as screw implant or non screw implant. Every orthodontic implant has screw portion. For the same reason, we do not need to put the term screw, such as “micro screw implant”. Therefore, we prefer to use the term “Microimplant” for orthodontic screw implant. |
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