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Esthetic anterior fixed functional space maintainer
Diptangshu Garai1, Chiranjit Ghosh2, Pradip Kumar Mandal2, Sudipta Kar3
1 Clinical Tutor/ Demonstrator, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery; North Bengal Dental College and Hospital, Siliguri, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India
2 North Bengal Dental College and Hospital; Clinical Tutor/ Demonstrator, Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Siliguri, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India
3 Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Guru Nanak Institute of Dental Science and Research, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Correspondence Address:
Chiranjit Ghosh
57 MGM Sarani, Bidyalanka, Nandibagan, P.O. Chandannagar, Hooghly - 713 126, West Bengal
India
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None  | Check |
DOI: 10.4103/ijpr.ijpr_16_17
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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 4½-year-old child after avulsion of the maxillary central incisor, using fixed functional anterior esthetic space maintainer. |
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