Fix Smile for a While: An Aesthetic Rehabilitation with Groper’s Appliance – Two Case Reports

Abstract

Esthetic rehabilitation of a preschooler with advanced carious lesions or trauma is the mainstay of pediatric dental practice. Parental desire is the most decisive factor for the placement of an anterior esthetic appliance. This article discusses unique case reports highlighting the fabrication of Groper’s appliance in a young child with early childhood caries and with trauma which is a simple technique for the placement of a fixed type of an anterior aesthetic appliance.   It constituted a design, whereby the maxillary primary second molars were used to support the appliance through bands and a wire that contained an acrylic flange bearing trimmed acrylic teeth, anteriorly. The appliance was functionally and aesthetically compliant.

Key words: Aesthetics, fixed functional appliance, Groper’s appliance, early childhood caries, trauma