The most frequent causes of anterior primary tooth loss among preschool children are caries (nursing caries), traumatic injuries, and diseases presenting absence of teeth as a clinical characteristic. Premature loss of primary incisors usually does not require the placement appliances for space maintenance because no mesial movement of the adjacent teeth is normally expected when the canines ha...

Aim Conservative procedures using dentin bonding agents are one of the important aspects of paediatric dental practice. The objective of this in vitro study was to comparatively evaluate the microleakage of two self etching adhesives in primary and permanent teeth. Materials and methods Sixtyfour human anterior teeth (thirty-two primary and thirty-two permanent) were divided into four groups: p...

The purpose of the study was to assess the prevalence and pattern of dental caries in the deciduous dentition among 5 year old children. The area of study was Rawalpindi and Islamabad and the study population consisted of 504 school children of both sexes (263 males and 241 females). A simple random sampling method was used to select the schools. Dental caries was assessed by the Dentition stat...

Where a permanent anterior tooth cross bite results from over-retention o[ z~ primary incisor, a rapid correction method may prove successlrul. When the over-retained primary incisor is extracted, the permanent successor in cross bite is tipped into the extraction site, correcting the cross bite. Moyers defines a simple anterior tooth cross bite as a dental malocclusion resulting from the abnor...

INTRODUCTION Microleakage is an important consideration in primary dentition because the floor of the cavity preparation may be close to the pulp. The added insult to the pulp caused by seepage of irritants around the restoration and through the thin dentin may produce irreversible pulp damage. AIM The objective of this study was to evaluate and compare the sealing ability of three light cure...

AIM The aim of this study was to compare the survival of composite resin restorations retained by glass fiber posts or reversed-orientated (upside-down) metal posts in severely decayed primary anterior teeth after 6, 12, and 18 months. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of forty-four 3- to 5-year-old children with bilateral severely decayed primary maxillary canines were included. Patients were tr...

Introduction: In orthodontic treatment, adequate anchorage is necessary to move the intended teeth. In some cases, just anterior teeth are malaligned, while posterior occlusion is acceptable. Therefore, the posterior teeth could be integrated by fiber-reinforced composite (FRC) to provide a rigid anchorage. This method proved advantageous since brackets are bonded just to anter...

Fusions of teeth and talon cusp are two rare developmental dental anomalies, affecting both primary and permanent dentitions. Both the anomalies are mostly reported as isolated finding and are rarely associated with other dental anomalies. Talon cusp is more common in maxillary anterior teeth in permanent dentition and fusion is commonly reported in mandibular teeth in primary dentition. The co...