Semi Permanent Restoration in Pediatric Dentistry

Semi permanent restorations are indicated in several conditions via with extensive decay in primary and young permanent teeth, teeth deformed by developmental defects or anomalies such as enamel dysplasia or dentinogenesis imperfecta, teeth with hypoplastic defects as these areas are more susceptible to caries due to plaque accumulation, teeth following pulp therapy, as preventive restorations in patient with high susceptibility to caries manifesting it either by gross carious lesion or by rampant caries and in a special child whose lack of oral hygiene may lead to further decay, as an abutment for space maintainer or prosthetic appliance, in cases where there are used as abutment for a distal extension appliance, as a temporary restoration of a fractured tooth, in severe cases of bruxism where teeth are abraded and in primary incisors with class four lesions occurring mesially and distally along with class five lesion on the same tooth. This book has complied the use of different crowns in pediatric dentistry. The text has been taken from various standard journals, textbooks,e-books, website etc in simple and easy language.