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Frog Appliance- An Innovative Treatment Option for the Replacement of Missing Teeth in An Epileptic Child
Raghavendra M Shetty1, Anita Goyal2, Hanumanth Reddy3
1Professor and Head of the Department, Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Chhattisgarh Dental College and Research Institute , Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh, India .
Abstract:
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.
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