Clinical application of a digital semi-rigid bridge space maintainer fabricated from polyetheretherketone for premature loss of primary molars

• Main Authors: Qi Wang (Author), Zhenzhen Zhang (Author), Sheng Zhong (Author), Jiajia Liu (Author), Ying Hu (Author), Ziling Zhou (Author), Caidi Zhang (Author), Shizhu Bai (Author), Li'an Wu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2023-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

Abstract Background Premature loss of primary molars can be treated with a band loop space maintainer (SM). However, fabricating a conventional band loop SM requires multiple clinical and laboratory procedures, which can potentially affect the accuracy of the SM. Moreover, the conventional SM is una...