COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF FIBRE REINFORCED COMPOSITE RESIN OVER CONVENTIONAL BAND AND LOOP FOR SPACE MAINTENANCE IN CHILDREN
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Aim:TocomparetheclinicalsuccessrateofFiberReinforcedCompositeResinspacemaintainerwiththatofConventionalBandandLoopspacemaintainerinchildrenofagegroup6-8years. Methodology:Atotalof60subjects(31girlsand29boys)ofagegroup6to8yearsrequiringspacemaintenanceduetoprematurelossofprimarymolars.ChildrenwhoreceivedFibreReinforcedCompositeResinandBandandLoopspacemaintainerswerecategorizedasGroup1andGroup2respectively.Subjectswererecalledattheendof1st,3rd,and6thmonthsforevaluationofbothtypesofspacemaintainerswhenclinicalsuccessrateofbothtypesofspacemaintainerswereevaluated.Treatmentacceptabilityduringandaftertheprocedurewascheckedusingsix-pointWong-BakerFacesScale. StatisticalAnalysis:ThestatisticalanalysiswasperformedbyusingastatisticalsoftwarepackageSPSSversion25statisticalsoftware.Quantitativevariableswereexpressedasmeanandstandarddeviation.Comparisonofquantitativevariablesbetweenthetwogroupswereanalyzedbyunpairedttest.Qualitativevariableswereexpressedasfrequencyandproportion.Comparisonofqualitativevariablesbetweentwogroupswereanalyzedbychi-squaretest.Apvaluelessthan0.05wasconsideredasstatisticallysignificant Results:Thisstudycomparedthesuccessratesof60spaceMaintainersBandandloopandFRCRsin30childrenintheDepartmentofPediatricDentistryatGovernmentDentalCollege,Thiruvananthapuram.60spacemaintainerswereevaluatedattheendof6months,30bandandloopspacemaintainers wereevaluated,6failedand24weresuccessful.Outof30FRCRspacemaintainers,5failedand25wereconsideredsuccessful.Theclinicalsuccessratewasfoundtobe83.3%forFRCRand81.7%forbandandloop.Thedifferences,however,werenotstatisticallysignificant(P>.05). Conclusion:Althoughstatisticallynosignificantdifferenceinsuccessratesbetweenthesetwotypesofspacemaintainers,FibreReinforcedCompositeResinspacemaintainerhadslightedgeoverBandandloopspacemaintainerintermsofclinicalefficiency.PatientacceptancetowardsthemwerealsofoundFRCRspacemaintainerswasfoundtobeslightlybetterthantothatofbandandloopspacemaintainers.OnasubjectiveopinionmanyofthesubjectspraisedtheestheticqualityofFRCR.TheevidenceobtainedsuggeststhatFRCRisasuitablealternativetoBandandLoopforshorttermspacemaintenanceinyoungchildren.
