Space maintainers are needed if your child loses a tooth early or have a baby tooth extracted due to dental decay. A space maintainer is designed to hold the remaining teeth in a position that will allow the future permanent tooth to erupt in the proper location. If a space maintainer is not places, the teeth will shift into the open areas, making it difficult for the permanent tooth to erupt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Space maintainers are needed if your child loses a tooth early or have a baby tooth extracted due to dental decay. A space maintainer is designed to hold the remaining teeth in a position that will allow the future permanent tooth to erupt in the proper location. If a space maintainer is not places, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":253,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hittsondental.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/258"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hittsondental.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hittsondental.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hittsondental.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hittsondental.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hittsondental.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/258\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hittsondental.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hittsondental.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}