Evaluation of Band-Loop Space Maintainers Produced With Three-Dimensional Printer and Conventional Technique

Launched by AYDIN ADNAN MENDERES UNIVERSITY · Jan 27, 2025

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ClinConnect Summary

This clinical trial is studying two different ways of making a dental device called a band-loop space maintainer, which helps keep space in a child's mouth after losing certain baby teeth. The researchers want to see how well these devices work when made using traditional methods versus a modern technique called 3D printing. They will also look at how these devices affect the surrounding gum and bone health.

To participate in the trial, children aged between 18 and 29 who are generally healthy and have lost their first baby molar teeth in the lower jaw may be eligible. They need to have a developing permanent tooth underneath the lost baby tooth and meet a few other dental health criteria. Kids who join the study will receive one of the two types of space maintainers and will be monitored to see how well it works and how it affects their dental health over time. This study is important because it could help improve dental treatments for kids in the future.

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Systemically healthy children
• • Bilateral early loss of deciduous first molar teeth in the lower jaw
• • Presence of radiographically confirmed permanent tooth germ under the extracted deciduous tooth
• • Radiographically determined 1,5 mm minimum of bone existence above the permanent tooth germ
• • Existence of flush terminal plane/mesial step in decidious dentition and Angle class 1 molar relationship in mixed dentition
• • Existence of radiographically and clinically healthy abutment teeth
• • Frankl score 3 and 4 children
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Patients with systemic diseases
• • Frankl score 1 and 2 children