From Decay to Delight: A Case Report on Esthetic Rehabilitation in Early Childhood Caries
Khushi S Zanwar, Monika Khubchandani, Manoj Chandak, Jigna Kachaliya, Ramakrishna Yeluri, Meenal S Pande, Rohan R Khetan
TL;DR
A four-year-old child with severe dental decay underwent successful treatment to restore their smile and oral health.
Contribution
The case highlights effective multidisciplinary treatment for early childhood caries and its impact on self-esteem.
Findings
Comprehensive treatment restored the child's smile and oral function.
Early intervention and teamwork improved outcomes in ECC management.
Abstract
Early childhood caries (ECC) continues to be a major global dental health concern for young children. This case report examines a young patient's transformation from decay to delight via comprehensive esthetic treatment. ECC in a four-year-old child resulted in significant dental caries and poor esthetics. In addition to space maintenance and orthodontic examination, essential treatments included dental extractions, stainless steel crowns, and composite restorations. The result showed that the child's smile and self-esteem had been successfully restored, as well as their oral health and function. This case emphasizes the value of early intervention, multidisciplinary teamwork, and individualized treatment plans in the management of early childhood caries and the restoration of pediatric patients' oral health.
Genes, proteins, chemicals, diseases, species, mutations and cell lines named across the full text — each resolved to its canonical identifier and authoritative record.
Click any figure to enlarge with its caption.
Figure 1
Figure 2
Figure 3
Figure 4
Figure 5
Figure 6
Figure 7
Figure 8Peer Reviews
No public reviews on file for this paper yet. If you reviewed it on a platform where reviews are public (OpenReview, ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML), you can paste yours below so the community can read it here.
Videos
No videos yet. Explain this paper in a talk, walkthrough, or lecture? Add one.
Taxonomy
TopicsDental Health and Care Utilization · Oral microbiology and periodontitis research · Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics