title: Biological restorations: an alternative esthetic treatment for restoration of severely mutilated primary anterior teeth.
abstract: Early childhood caries (ECC) affects more than one out of seven preschoolers and is more prevalent in lowincome families, who generally have limited access to dental services. The seriousness and societal costs of ECC continue to be a significant health issue for children from racial/ethnic minorities and from developing countries. Hence, a biological restoration seems to be a successful cost-effective alternative approach for treating such cases.
authors.affiliation: Professor and Head, Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Government Dental College Amritsar, Punjab, India, e-mail: navgredent@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Grewal
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: N
authors.affiliation: Postgraduate student, Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Government Dental College Amritsar, Punjab, India.
authors.forename: Reeshu
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: S
keywords: Early childhood caries; biological restorations.