DOI: 10.36347/sjds.2019.v06i02.002

Pages: 27-30

One of the paediatric dentist’s greatest restorative challenges is the esthetic rehabilitation of a young toddler who has suffered multiple tooth loss subsequent to early childhood caries or extensive dental trauma. An anterior esthetic appliance may be used to replace lost teeth. Other considerations include: space maintenance, masticatory function, speech development, and tongue habits. The most decisive factor for placing an anterior esthetic appliance is parental desire. This paper discusses in detail about single fixed anterior esthetic appliance and the considerations to be made for deciding when and why to place such type of anterior functional space maintainer.