title: Frog Appliance- An Innovative Treatment Option for the Replacement of Missing Teeth in An Epileptic Child.
abstract: Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disease which may result in various oro-facial injuries among which fracture of crown and avulsion of tooth are commonly reported. Challenges come in growing epileptic children where fixed prosthesis could not be delivered and it demands a fixed semi-permanent prosthesis that needs strength along with esthetics. The present paper reports an innovative appliance which has fulfilled fore mentioned criteria; with the appliance named-frog appliance.
authors.affiliation: Professor and Head of the Department, Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Chhattisgarh Dental College and Research Institute , Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh, India .
authors.forename: Raghavendra M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Shetty
authors.affiliation: PG student, Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Chhattisgarh Dental College and Research Institute , Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh, India .
authors.forename: Anita
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Goyal
authors.affiliation: Professor and Head of Department, Department of Orthodontics, Chhattisgarh Dental College and Research Institute , Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh, India .
authors.forename: Hanumanth
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Reddy
authors.affiliation: Reader, Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Chhattisgarh Dental College and Research Institute , Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh, India .
authors.forename: Arun B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Sajjnar
authors.affiliation: Senior Lecturer, Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Chhattisgarh Dental College and Research Institute , Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh, India .
authors.forename: Sonal
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jain
keywords: Avulsion; Neurological disorder; Semi-permanent bridge