Open AccessFrog Appliance- An Innovative Treatment Option for the Replacement of Missing Teeth in An Epileptic Child
Author(s) -
Raghavendra Shetty,
Anita Goyal,
Hanumanth Reddy,
Arun B Sajjnar,
Sonal Jain
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of clinical and diagnostic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-782X
pISSN - 0973-709X
DOI - 10.7860/jcdr/2015/13385.5888
Subject(s) - crown (dentistry) , dentistry , medicine , epilepsy , prosthesis , orthodontics , surgery , psychiatry
Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disease which may result in various oro-facial injuries among which fracture of crown and avulsion of tooth are commonly reported. Challenges come in growing epileptic children where fixed prosthesis could not be delivered and it demands a fixed semi-permanent prosthesis that needs strength along with esthetics. The present paper reports an innovative appliance which has fulfilled fore mentioned criteria; with the appliance named-frog appliance.