Space Maintainers can be a blessings for Children Teeth

Space Maintainers are the devices that are made either of metal or plastic and these serves in the preserving of space for the permanent teeth to come in the oral cavity when the child losses primary teeth at an early age.

In man’s life there occur two phases of dentition that is :

The first phase is known as Primary Dentition and the second phase is known as Permanent Dentition.

The primary dentition serves the function of creating space for the permanent dentition. But due to some reasons some of the children may loose their primary teeth earlier. The reasons can be trauma, caries due to which the child losses teeth. Due to this reasons there left behind a great space which can cause the drift of near by teeth to this space. So maintaining the room for the permanent teeth, Space Maintainers are required.

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