Case Report

Year : 2017 | Volume : 2 | Issue : 2| Page : 90-92

Esthetic Anterior Fixed Functional Space Maintainer

Diptangshu Garai1,2, Chiranjit Ghosh2,3, Pradip Kumar Mandal2,3, Sudipta Kar4

1 Clinical Tutor/ Demonstrator, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, 3 Clinical Tutor/Demonstrator, Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, 2 North Bengal Dental College and Hospital, Siliguri, Darjeeling, 4 Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Guru Nanak Institute of Dental Science and Research, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Address for correspondence:

Dr. Chiranjit Ghosh,

57 MGM Sarani, Bidyalanka, Nandibagan, P.O. Chandannagar, Hooghly - 713 126, West Bengal, India.

E-mail: drcghosh@rediffmail.com

Abstract

Traumatic dental injury is one of the main causes of premature loss of maxillary anterior teeth in schoolgoing children, causing psychological trauma both to patient as well as parents. In that situation, choice of treatment is maintaining the space by space maintainer which may be fixed/removable or functional/nonfunctional. This article describes rehabilitation of a 41⁄2‐year‐old child after avulsion of the maxillary central incisor, using fixed functional anterior esthetic space maintainer.

Keywords: Avulsion, deciduous anterior maxillary teeth, dental trauma, esthetic anterior fixed functional space maintainer, psychological impact

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How to cite this article: Garai D, Ghosh C, Mandal PK, Kar S. Esthetic anterior fixed functional space maintainer. Int J Pedod Rehabil 2017;2:90-2.