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| Year : 2020 | Volume
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Removable functional space maintainer for esthetic rehabilitation of a child with severe early childhood caries
Amita Rai1, Bandana Koirala2, Mamta Dali2, Sneha Shrestha2
1 Department of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry, People's Dental College and Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal
2 Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, College of Dental Surgery, B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal
Correspondence Address:
Amita Rai
Department of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry, People's Dental College and Hospital, Kathmandu
Nepal
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DOI: 10.4103/ijpr.ijpr_23_19
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Early childhood caries causing early loss of teeth resulting in compromised esthetics, function, and malocclusion is one of the dreaded but frequently encountered situations in pediatric patients. Here, we report a case in which extraction of badly carious primary anterior and posterior teeth was done followed by rehabilitation with removable space maintainer to establish esthetics and function in a five-year-old boy.
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