{"title":"Modified Willet appliance: A case report","authors":"Shalu Majreti, H. Aeran, A. Tuli, Nitin Khanduri","doi":"10.18231/j.ijohd.2022.065","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The preservation of deciduous teeth is essential until normal exfoliation. It plays an important role in preventive and interventional dentistry. Early loss of a deciduous tooth or teeth can have various consequences. Space maintainer of the intra-alveolar kind is advised when the deciduous second molar is lost before the eruption of the first permanent molar. This report discusses a modified Willet appliance in cases where loss of primary deciduous first and second molar occur prior to eruption of permanent mandibular first molar.","PeriodicalId":91704,"journal":{"name":"International journal of dentistry and oral health","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International journal of dentistry and oral health","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.18231/j.ijohd.2022.065","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The preservation of deciduous teeth is essential until normal exfoliation. It plays an important role in preventive and interventional dentistry. Early loss of a deciduous tooth or teeth can have various consequences. Space maintainer of the intra-alveolar kind is advised when the deciduous second molar is lost before the eruption of the first permanent molar. This report discusses a modified Willet appliance in cases where loss of primary deciduous first and second molar occur prior to eruption of permanent mandibular first molar.