Riswana AM, Peter Joby, Krishnakumar R, Methippara John Joseph Department of Pedodontics, Annoor Dental College and Hospital, Muvattupuzha Running title – Space maintainer Received: 02-05-2023 Revised: 07-05-2023 Accepted: 15-05-2023 Address for correspondence: Dr Riswana AM, Snr Lecturer, Dept of pedodontics. Annoor Dental College & Hospital, Muvattupuzha, 686673 Email ID: riswanaam@gmail.com This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial ShareAlike 4.0 license, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical[...]