Open AccessAn esthetic space maintainer for future prosthesis in growing patients
Author(s) -
Amol A Verulkar,
Gurpreet Kaur,
Anand A Tripathi,
Manmohit Singh
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
indian journal of dental sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2231-2293
pISSN - 0976-4003
DOI - 10.4103/ijds.ijds_8_17
Subject(s) - software maintainer , space (punctuation) , prosthesis , dentistry , orthodontics , medicine , psychology , aesthetics , computer science , art , surgery , programming language , operating system
The treatment of congenitally/missing teeth at young age is unique challenges to the dental profession and often requires a coordinated interdisciplinary approach to achieve optimal esthetic and functional results. Space maintainers in orthodontics has widely played key role in early maintenance of space till growth ceases. In growing patients for aesthetics purpose the tooth colored material use provide additional patients compliance till it gets future prosthesis like implants. Here; the article gave unique type of space maintainer for growing patients