Frog Appliance- An Innovative Treatment Option for the Replacement of Missing Teeth in An Epileptic Child

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 pros...

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Published in:Journal of clinical and diagnostic research 2015-05, Vol.9 (5), p.ZD11-ZD12
Main Authors: Shetty, Raghavendra M, Goyal, Anita, Reddy, Hanumanth, Sajjnar, Arun B, Jain, Sonal
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
avulsion
neurological disorder
semi-permanent bridge
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Summary: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.
ISSN:2249-782X
0973-709X
DOI:10.7860/JCDR/2015/13385.5888