DIGITAL SPACE MAINTAINERS

3D printing is a manufacturing process in which formation of an object is done by building it layer by layer. Many new developments have occurred in paediatric dentistry in recent years. As the world is advancing technologically day by day, 3-D printing technology will be the need of the hour in coming days. The plethora of applications that 3D Printing holds as a technology are more than that can be explained. Technologies like 3D Printing help to have least physical interactions with patients and still provide accurate and best outcomes for our patients taking care of the safety for both doctor and patients.Nowadays, 3D printing is being used to fabricate the space maintainers, to overcome the disadvantages of conventional space maintainers and ribbond and everstick as space maintainers. The space maintainers that use 3D printing technology are called 3D printed space maintainers or digitainers/ digital space maintainers. They offer better results, in terms of impression making, digital impressions make it easy for both the dentist and the patient, less chair- side work, short appointments, better patients cooperation, improves aesthetics, reduces processing errors, offers high strength, less breakage of the appliance, and also offers good patients acceptability.