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Esthetic Rehabilitation of a 3 years old patient with mutilated anterior teeth
Shoeb Mujawar, Garima Tiwari
ABSTRACT
Dental caries has been reported to affect humans since prehistoric times, its prevalence being greatly increased in modern times worldwide; an increase strongly associated with dietary changes. Rampant caries is burrowing in nature with early pulpal involvement and gross destruction affecting most teeth in children. This causes decreased masticatory efficiency, difficulty in speech, compromised esthetics, development of abnormal tongue habits and subsequent malocclusion & psychological problems. It is a challenging task to restore dental health in young children with grossly decayed teeth affected with rampant caries. This case report documents the esthetic rehabilitation of a 3 year old under general anesthesia.
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