The presence of all teeth provides a number of benefits: A good chewing. This will create a correct bolus. Helps the child’s socialization with others. Facilitates learning. Dentolabiales pronouncing words correctly.

Cases of premature loss
The child may suffer an accident that the tooth fracture or tooth product hit the climb out of the socket. In advanced infectious processes. Split with fork commitment.

Treatments
In case of extraction inevitable, it is important that the dentist retains the space left by the surgery.
To this end we have the space maintainers, which are devices whose mission is to prevent adjacent teeth occupy the place that was the tooth extracted. These devices can be removable or fixed.
In case of premature loss of anterior teeth, fixed bridges are Denari type.

Importance of conserving space
Faced with a premature tooth loss:
The surrounding teeth can move into the space left, the neighboring teeth can be tilted, antagonist can extrude the tooth, thus preventing the proper eruption of adult teeth.