Case Report
Year: 2023 | Month: April-June | Volume: 8 | Issue: 2 | Pages: 514-517
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijshr.20230268
Correction of Habit along with Laser Assisted Frenectomy in High Frenal Attachment - A Case Report
Dr Priyanka Purohit1, Dr Dinesh Rao2, Dr Sunil Panwar3, Dr Krittika Samaddar4, Dr Remi R V5
1,2,3,4,5Department of Paediatric and Preventive Dentistry, Pacific Dental College and Hospital, Pacific university, Udaipur, India
Corresponding Author: Dr Priyanka Purohit
ABSTRACT
Digit sucking is the most prevalent oral fixation seen in young toddlers. Digit sucking can be brought on by fatigue, boredom, excitement, hunger, fear, and both mental and physical stress. If these practices persist until the preschool years, when permanent teeth start to erupt, they may operate as a substantial environmental etiological factor in the development of malocclusion. The diode laser can be used to successfully remove pathological frenum. The diode laser can be used in paediatric dentistry due to its application, adequate coagulation, lack of need for sutures, and decreased discomfort and inflammation. In the case study presented in this paper, an 8-year-old female patient who had a high frenal attachment and had thumb-sucked her entire life was treated with fixed appliance therapy and laser labial frenectomy. In addition to resolved malocclusion, acceptable secondary intention wound healing, and beginning functional recovery of a physiological upper lip movement, the clinical evaluation revealed that the malocclusion had been corrected. The surgery was well tolerated, according to the patient.
Keywords: Thumb sucking, Fixed appliance therapy, Laser frenectomy