Preserving Hard Tissues : A Newer Treatment Approach

A small oral ulcer can be very distressing to a patient. When such patients seek dental care, oral physicians play a major role by symptomatic and supportive treatments. If the causative agent is sharp tooth cusp, it is usually managed by coronoplasty or at times, by extraction of the offending tooth. Here the authors present case reports of patients having chronic ulcers that were managed with a new alternative approach of preserving the tooth by using a cheek retractor to relieve irritation from the sharp teeth and were followed up with good results