PROSTHODONTIC REHABILITATION OF A SIX-YEAR-OLD CHILD WITH ANODONTIA AND HYPODONTIA WITH AN ASSOCIATED NON-SYNDROMIC DEFECT.

Abstract

Edentulism has a series of detrimental effects on oral and overall health. Oral repercussions include the well-known residual ridge resorption, as well as impaired masticatory ability, an unhealthy diet, social limitations, and poor oral health quality of life. Pre-schoolers with edentulism with complete dentures are uncommon, although they do exist. When this unusual ailment is combined with cleft lip and palate, the situation becomes much more difcult. Since this is a rare condition, the growing child's condence is negatively affected when he/she is compared to other youngsters of similar age groups. Hence, it is the responsibility of a clinician to give them better treatment that will enable the child to grow up in a healthy and happy environment. In such conditions, the most appropriate treatment of choice for a developing child is a removable prosthesis. Removable denture prostheses contributed immensely to the eld of prosthodontics. This is a case report of prosthetic rehabilitation of a 6-year-old child with anodontia on the maxillary arch and hypodontia on the mandibular arch associated with cleft lip and palate.