Pediatric Crown are the best durable restoration and successful in primary dentition with decays or fractures. It doesn't break and rarely wears in the few years remaining in the mouth. It remains attached to the tooth until the exfoliation and you always have to inform the parents about this fact.
It is indicated in this cases:
- Restoration of cavities in two or more surfaces
- Children with high risk of cavities
- After receiving a pulp treatment: pulpotomy or pulpectomy.
- Teeth with structural defects
- Restoration in fractured teeth or fractured cusps
- Used like a space maintainer and teeth with excessive wear.
In this image we can see the crowns with the mainteiner.
It is contraindicated when the teeth is going to be exfoliated in less than 6-12 months.
They provide us with this metallic crown:
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