Space maintainers II Flashcards
Space maintainer: primary incisor loss etiology? (5)
- Traumas: Most frequent
- Caries (bottle caries and rampant caries)
- Ectopic eruption
- Lack of space
- Supernumerary teeth
Space maintainer: primary incisor loss consequences? (5)
- Patients age
- Esthetics
- Closure of the space (rare)
- Apparition of habits
- Alteration of speech
When the primary incisors are lost before the ______ erupt there may be loss of space
primary canines
Space maintainer: primary incisor diagnosis? (3)
- Medical and dental chart
- Exploration
- Panoramic X-ray
Space maintainer: primary incisor objectives of the treatment? (3)
- Esthetic reposition
- Functional rehabilitation (swallowing and fonation)
- Assure the correct eruption of the permanent
incisors
Space maintainer: primary incisor treatment? (3)
• Esthetic fixed space maintainer • Removable plaque with substitution of incisors • Periodical check-ups
Space maintainer: primary incisor removal? (2)
- When the permanent incisors start their eruption
* When the space maintainer is no longer needed
Space maintainer: primary incisor disadvantages of fixed ? (2)
- They accumulate more dental plaque
- If they break, they are harder to fix
Space maintainer: lower primary canine loss etiology? (6)
• Resorption of the canine root when the permanent lateral incisor erupts • Lack of space • Caries • Occlusal trauma • Alteration in the order of eruption
**There is a collapse of the dental arch, there is a
loss of the arch length
Space maintainer: lower primary canine diagnosis? (5)
- Medical and dental charts
- Exploration
- Panoramic x-ray
- Space analysis
- Occlusion analysis
Space maintainer: lower primary canine clinical presentations? (2)
- Unilateral loss
- Bilateral loss
Space maintainer: lower primary canine unilateral loss types?
- No deviation of midline
- Deviation of midline
Space maintainer: lower primary canine unilateral loss - no deviation of the midline treatment aim ? (3)
‣ Maintain the space for the eruption of the permanent canine
‣ Prevent midline deviation
‣ Prevent incisors linguoversion
Space maintainer: lower primary canine unilateral loss symptoms? (3)
‣ Inclination of the incisors towards the side of the loss
‣ Deviation or not of the midline
‣ Slight linguoversion of the incisors or not
Space maintainer: lower primary canine unilateral loss - deviation of the midline treatment aim ? (3)
‣ Maintain the space for the eruption of the permanent canine
‣ Try to center the midline
‣ Prevent incisors linguoversion
Space maintainer: lower primary canine unilateral loss - no deviation of the midline treatment? (3)
‣ Analysis of the available space
‣ Lingual arch with a distal stop at the lateral incisor
‣ If the space is inadequate, send to orthodontist
Space maintainer: lower primary canine unilateral loss - deviation of the midline treatment? (4)
‣ Analysis of the space available ‣ Try to center the midline by extracting the contralateral incisor ‣ Lingual arch with distal stops at the lateral incisors ‣ Send to orthodontist
Space maintainer: lower primary canine bilateral loss symptoms? (4)
‣ Midline centered
‣ Linguoversion of the incisors
‣ Increase of the overjet
‣ Loss of arch length
Space maintainer: lower primary canine bilateral loss treatment aim?
Maintain the arch length
Space maintainer: lower primary canine bilateral loss treatment? (2)
‣ If there is no osteodental discrepancy or it is a slight
discrepancy: Lingual arch with distal stops at the lateral
incisors
‣ If there is a big osteodental discrepancy: Send to orthodontist
Space maintainer: Lower vs upper canine loss?
Upper canines > lower canines
Space maintainer: Upper primary canine etiology? (4)
- Lateral eruption of permanent lateral incisor
- Not enough space for lateral incisor to erupt
- Caries
- Trauma