What is considered dental trauma?
Dental trauma is injury to the mouth, including teeth, lips, gums, tongue, and jawbones. Soft tissue injuries to the mouth and dental trauma are typically very painful and should receive prompt treatment. The most common dental trauma is a broken or lost tooth.
How common is dental trauma?
The overall prevalence of dental trauma was 14.5%, amongst the 880 subjects examined, out of which, 63.2% males and 36.4% females were found to be affected. The maxillary central incisor was found to be most commonly affected tooth (43.8%). The most common cause of injury reported was fall during playing (37.5%).
How long does dental trauma last?
Immediate attendance at a dentist to receive local anaesthetic is therefore essential to allow this repositioning procedure. A splint is then required, and in this case the bone takes 4-6 weeks to heal and for reparative bone to form around the fractures. Antibiotics are best given to prevent any post-trauma infection.
What is tooth concussion?
Concussion is an injury to the tooth-supporting structures without increased mobility or displacement of the tooth, but with pain to percussion and without gingival bleeding.
What is the most common type of dental trauma?
Tooth fracture (22.7%) was the most common type of dental trauma followed by tooth displacement (8.7%) and complete tooth removal (8%). The most common reason of dental trauma included fall (9.3%) and accidental hit by some objects (8.9).
What is the most common dental trauma?
Orofacial injuries vary, but the most common are soft tissue injuries (eg, lacerations). The upper lip, maxilla, and central maxillary incisors are involved in up to 90% of all orofacial and dental trauma. The majority of dental trauma is tooth (crown) fracture, tooth avulsion, or tooth subluxation.
What are the possible consequences of any traumatic injury to the tooth?
Observational studies have suggested that traumatic dental injuries (TDI) can lead to pain, loss of function and esthetic problems, with physical, emotional and social consequences for children and their families.
How do you treat tooth trauma?
How will my injury be treated?
- If you’ve chipped or fractured your tooth’s crown, it’s likely it can be repaired either by reattaching the broken piece or by putting a tooth-colored filling in place.
- During an injury, a tooth may be pushed sideways, out of or into its socket.
What are three injury categories for dental injury?
Dental Trauma
- Subluxation: Mobility of the tooth due to injury to the supporting structures of the tooth.
- Avulsion: tooth is completely displaced out of the tooth socket.
- Lateral Luxation: the tooth is displaced and a neighboring bone is fractured.
- Intrusion: the tooth is pushed into the bone.
What is finger avulsion?
Finger avulsion is a rare and grave injury. Injury caused to the finger wearing a ring by avulsion of the soft tissues, when the ring is pulled forcefully can cause a wide spectrum of damage ranging from a simple contusion injury to a traumatic amputation.