Frog Appliance- An Innovative Treatment Option for the Replacement of Missing Teeth in An Epileptic Child
Published: May 1, 2015 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.7860/JCDR/2015/.5888
Raghavendra M Shetty, Anita Goyal, Hanumanth Reddy, Arun B Sajjnar, Sonal Jain
1. Professor and Head of the Department, Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Chhattisgarh Dental College and Research Institute,
Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh, India.
2. PG student, Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Chhattisgarh Dental College and Research Institute, Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh, India.
3. Professor and Head of Department, Department of Orthodontics, Chhattisgarh Dental College and Research Institute, Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh, India.
4. Reader, Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Chhattisgarh Dental College and Research Institute, Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh, India.
5. Senior Lecturer, Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Chhattisgarh Dental College and Research Institute, Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh, India.
Correspondence
Dr. Raghavendra M Shetty,
Professor and Head of the Department, Department of Pedodontics, Chhattisgarh Dental College and Research Institute,
Rajnandgaon- 491 441, Chhattisgarh, India.
E-mail : raghavendra77@yahoo.com
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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