Fixed functional space maintainer incorporating a tenon-mortise connector
This case report highlights the incorporation of a tenon-mortise type of nonrigid connector between two adjacent pontics in a fixed functional space maintainer, to allow limited passive eruption and alignment of young permanent teeth. A 13-year-old male patient had lost his lower second premolar and...
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| description | This case report highlights the incorporation of a tenon-mortise type of nonrigid connector between two adjacent pontics in a fixed functional space maintainer, to allow limited passive eruption and alignment of young permanent teeth. A 13-year-old male patient had lost his lower second premolar and first molar on the right side, secondary to the surgical removal of an odontogenic keratocyst a year ago. A space maintainer had to be placed until implants, or a fixed partial denture could be placed, after the completion of his growth. The appliance consisted of band type retainers with rests on the first premolar and the second molar, rigidly connected to their adjacent pontics (second premolar and first molar), with a tenon-mortise type of connector between the pontics. The casting was composed of nickel-chromium, out of which the pontics were layered with ceramic. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-33c3393206464e868c883fb156d459d12022-12-22T03:34:44ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsContemporary Clinical Dentistry0976-237X0976-23612018-01-019464965110.4103/ccd.ccd_722_18Fixed functional space maintainer incorporating a tenon-mortise connectorNeil De SouzaGodwin Clovis Da CostaPaul ChalakkalKennedy MascarenhasThis case report highlights the incorporation of a tenon-mortise type of nonrigid connector between two adjacent pontics in a fixed functional space maintainer, to allow limited passive eruption and alignment of young permanent teeth. A 13-year-old male patient had lost his lower second premolar and first molar on the right side, secondary to the surgical removal of an odontogenic keratocyst a year ago. A space maintainer had to be placed until implants, or a fixed partial denture could be placed, after the completion of his growth. The appliance consisted of band type retainers with rests on the first premolar and the second molar, rigidly connected to their adjacent pontics (second premolar and first molar), with a tenon-mortise type of connector between the pontics. The casting was composed of nickel-chromium, out of which the pontics were layered with ceramic.http://www.contempclindent.org/article.asp?issn=0976-237X;year=2018;volume=9;issue=4;spage=649;epage=651;aulast=Deceramicfunctional space maintainernickel-chromiumnonrigid connectorretainer |
| spellingShingle | Neil De Souza Godwin Clovis Da Costa Paul Chalakkal Kennedy Mascarenhas Fixed functional space maintainer incorporating a tenon-mortise connector Contemporary Clinical Dentistry ceramic functional space maintainer nickel-chromium nonrigid connector retainer |
| title | Fixed functional space maintainer incorporating a tenon-mortise connector |
| title_full | Fixed functional space maintainer incorporating a tenon-mortise connector |
| title_fullStr | Fixed functional space maintainer incorporating a tenon-mortise connector |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fixed functional space maintainer incorporating a tenon-mortise connector |
| title_short | Fixed functional space maintainer incorporating a tenon-mortise connector |
| title_sort | fixed functional space maintainer incorporating a tenon mortise connector |
| topic | ceramic functional space maintainer nickel-chromium nonrigid connector retainer |
| url | http://www.contempclindent.org/article.asp?issn=0976-237X;year=2018;volume=9;issue=4;spage=649;epage=651;aulast=De |
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