A New Threat to Adolescent Oral Health: The Grill
Hollowell, W.H., et al. - The wearing of dental “grills” in the mouths of children, adolescents, and adults is a problematic fad currently facing the dental community. A grill is a gold, platinum, or other metal and often jewel-encrusted encasement for the dentition. The grill can be easily placed over the existing teeth and is fabricated by simply obtaining an impression of an area of a person’s mouth over which a grill is desired. The purpose of this case study was to report the oral and dental manifestations of a case in which a grill was worn by an uninformed adolescent consumer [more...]
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