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Fixed retention of congenitally missing maxillary lateral incisors using a chairside, prefabricated fiber-reinforced
Flavio Uribe1, Jonathan C Meiers, Ravindra Nanda
1Division of Orthodontics, School of Dental Medicine, University of Connecticut, Farmington, Connecticut 06030, USA. furibe@uchc.edu
World Journal of Orthodontics
|January 17, 2009
Abstract:
Adolescents with congenitally missing lateral incisors require an interim space maintainer to restore function and esthetics before craniofacial growth is complete and an endosseous implant can be placed. This article presents 2 patients, each with a missing lateral incisor, who underwent orthodontic therapy. A chairside, prefabricated fiber-reinforced composite bridge was used as a fixed space maintainer after the appliances were removed.