Space Maintainer

Dr. Rich explains what a space maintainer is and how it’s placed. They are also known as band and loop space maintainers. A space maintainer is used to prevent an adult tooth from drifting into the space of a missing primary tooth.

to send me your questions.

Free E-Book, “5 Questions to Ask your Dentist before you get dentures”

Very Nice Smile merch is now available

As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

If you’d like to schedule a consultation with me

Please visit my website at

On social media please visit,

Also check out my bagpiping channel,

MEDICAL ADVICE DISCLAIMER: All content in this video and description including: infor­ma­tion, opinions, con­tent, ref­er­ences and links is for infor­ma­tional pur­poses only. The Author does not pro­vide any dental advice on the Site. Access­ing, viewing, read­ing or oth­er­wise using this content does NOT cre­ate a dentist-patient rela­tion­ship between you and it’s author. Pro­vid­ing per­sonal or med­ical infor­ma­tion to the Principal author does not cre­ate a dentist-patient rela­tion­ship between you and the Principal author or authors. Noth­ing con­tained in this video or it’s description is intended to estab­lish a dentist-patient rela­tion­ship, to replace the ser­vices of a trained dentist or health care pro­fes­sional, or oth­er­wise to be a sub­sti­tute for pro­fes­sional dental advice, diag­no­sis, or treatment. You should con­sult a licensed dentist or appropriately-credentialed health care worker in your com­mu­nity in all mat­ters relat­ing to your dental health.

[CajunLady]

I had that! I always played with it with my tongue and one day it popped out and I never told anyone. Maybe that’s why my teeth are effed 😂

[longps]

How nice of Youtube to show me this after 2 of my wisdom teeth were removed a day prior. Thanks for the trip down the memory lane.

[taacky]

Had one of these when I was younger and I didn't even know what it was, I remember saying to my dentist at the end of the appointment he forgot to take something out of my mouth lol

[marshmeesteacup]

I have that!
I’m scared to get it removed in like a year now 😭

[Devo]

I pulled mine out as a kid with plyers never had a problem

[ahotdj]

I had one of these when I was a child.

[jackybeck]

I had this, in 2016 when I was 8, as soon as the doctor pulled the tooth out of me, I accidentally bit my tongue, and assumed the pain came from the removed tooth, not the tongue

[Nate_the_Great]

I have nothing like this but it’s interesting

[youll.never.know.ll-qx]

Mine just fell out at gym because the tooh next to it came out

A cavity that was half of my tooth was underneath and I realized in horror as a chunk of my tooth came out of my mouth

The dentist also fixed it without any numbing

[jimking]

When I was 8 years old I had to have one of those spacers put in my teeth but it was much bigger than that one they had to cement it to both my back teeth with a piece of metal going around the bottom inside of my gums. It lasted for about 4 years and then just eventually popped out

[Freddy-kw]

I have that but the tooth is a adult and touching a bone I’m scared that it will shift my jawline if I don’t get my space retainers

[BryanLozano-oe]

I’m gonna get 2 space maintainers next month along with a silver crown and the dentist is also gonna remove two teeth😢

[lilagirlgaming]

Will the adult pre moller tooth still come in if the adult tooth behide is coming a bit closer to it?

[UtopiaBettaThanAstro]

Wouldnt that hinder just a tiny bit of growth for the new tooth? As the metal is in the way of it

[VirtualGamerHD_ProudDanishDude]

Wait wtf, I had that one before, 😮 without actually knowing why 😂😂😂lol

[tkb]

It happened with me. The dentist never told about this. 😢

[aiza]

My daughter lost her front teeth at 4 and till now 9 years no teeth came out😢

[sgtkururu]

I got one of these in 5th grade.. it only lasted in my mouth for about a month. I hated that thing so i popped it off and hid it somewhere. I still have no idea where it is lol.

[matiasevda]

You know how they always show there's another tooth from a baby's tooth to adults tooth, what if they put a manufactured tooth a bone inside jaw that would work too and the tooth that sells would be all porcelain. 😃

[nightcorehorrizon]

Lol just had a class about this today 😂😂