EFFECT OF BITE RAISING METAL SPLINT ON DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN'S OCCLUSION

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J Korean Acad Pediatr Dent. 2005;32(1): 101-108.

신정근, 김재곤, 양연미, 이선영, 백병주

전북대학교 치과대학 소아치과학교실 및 구강생체과학연구소

Corresponding Author: 백병주 ,

ABSTRACT

Children are in mixed dentition during 6 years after 3 years old. this time is very important for sound permanent dentition. There are many factors of influence to tooth eruption stage ; adjacent teeth, tooth resorption, early loss or retention of deciduous tooth, local lesion, lip and tongue, masticatory muscles, ect. These factors should be in balance, if not, relation of adjacent teeth is changed, then severe malocclusion is occurred maybe. These cases revealed influences of resin bonded metal splint on occlusal surface of children's molar to mixed dentition. Splints interfere with falling off of deciduous tooth, tooth eruption, normal occlusion formation, and development of mixed dentition and occlusion. Therefore we removed the metal splint from teeth, follow-up checked occlusion and tooth eruption.

Keywords: Metal splint | Mixed dentition | TMD in children