Prevalence of usage of stainless steel crown, strip crown and zirconia in anterior teeth for paediatric dental patients in different age groups

Abstract

Aesthetic treatment for primary teeth has been considered as the greatest challenge in paediatric dentistry today. While there is a considerable amount of literature available on the subjective influences of aesthetic in adults, little is known about esthetics in children. The knowledge of the children's aesthetic perception is relevant to pediatric dentists because children are conscious of their dental aesthetic appearance and that of the other children. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of usage of Stainless steel crowns, strip crowns and zirconia crowns in paediatric dental patients in different age groups. The study was conducted in a university setting. A total of 120 samples were collected and the data was collected from the dental archives software. It was tabulated in an excel sheet and was analysed by SPSS software by IBM. The output was represented in the form of graphs and pie charts. The most common type of crown used for the treatment of anterior teeth was found to be the strip crown (100 %). Based on gender, about 60.3% of males underwent treatment for strip crowns, whereas 39.62% of females underwent treatment for strip crowns. Among the strip crowns, 27.76% of the primary upper maxillary right central incisors, 20.86% primary maxillary right lateral incisors, 29.65% primary maxillary left central incisors, 21.77% primary maxillary left lateral incisors underwent treatment for strip crowns. 28.93% belong to the year of 4 years who underwent treatment for strip crowns. The p-value obtained after running the chi-square analysis for the correlation of the gender of patients treated and the tooth number was statistically insignificant (p = 0.803).