TREATMENT OF MISSING CENTRAL INCISORS USING SPACE REGAINING AND MARYLAND BRIDGE : CASE REPORT

상실된 영구 중절치의 교정적 치료와 심미적 수복 치험례

  • Jun, Sang-Eun (Department of Pediatric Dentistry, College of Dentistry, Dankook University) ;
  • Kim, Yong-Kee (Department of Pediatric Dentistry, College of Dentistry, Dankook University)
  • 전상언 (단국대학교 치과대학 소아치과학교실) ;
  • 김용기 (단국대학교 치과대학 소아치과학교실)
  • Published : 1994.12.31

Abstract

A major cause of missing permanent incisors is congenital abscence and extraction because of trauma and pathologic condition. The request for restoration of missing or spaced anterior teeth is common in dental practice. Problems, such as the tilting, drifting, and rotation of teeth adjacent to the space, complicate the restoration of apperance, and a normally simple restorative dental procedure may become difficult. There are two primary treatment alternatives to improving a dentition's irregular and spaced apperance-closing the space by orthodontic means or providing a prosthesis to disguise the space. The treatment choice depends on many variables, but, as a general rule, patients with a normal overbite, overjet, and buccal relationship are better treated by maintaining the sapce and providing a prosthesis, either fixed or removable. This case report presents two cases : Traumatic loss of maxillary right and left central incisors, Extraction of malformed mandibular right central inciosr. The loss of central incisor space was regained by the fixed-removable and fixed orthodontic appliance, and then Maryland bridge was cemented.

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