Objectives Upon completion of this course, the reader will be able to: 1. Discuss the incidence of dental injury during general anesthesia. 2. Describe basic dental anatomy and the identification of both deciduous and adult teeth and common dental pathology. 3. Discuss the mechanism of dental injury during anesthesia. 4. Outline the steps of care provided to patients following dental injury. 5....

INTRODUCTION Dental injuries represent the most common claims against the anaesthesiologists. Dental lesions are frequent complications of orotracheal intubation and major causal factors are, firstly, preexisting poor dentition, and, secondly, difficult laryngoscopy and tracheal intubation. The aim of this work was to prioritize propositions for prevention in perianaesthetic dental injury and f...

Dental trauma to the permanent dentition can lead to clinical complications and its management may considerably challenge a practitioner. The incidence of pulp canal obliteration following dental trauma has been reported to be approximately 4 - 24%. Attempting to locate canals following calcific metamorphosis and negotiating it to full working length may lead to iatrogenic errors such as fractu...

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM School is one of the places with the greatest prevalence of occurrence of traumatic dental injuries. PURPOSE The aim of this study was to assess the knowledge levels and attitudes of elementary school teachers towards dental trauma and its management. MATERIALS AND METHOD In this cross-sectional study, 281 elementary school teachers were selected through cluster sam...

Purpose is to emphasize the danger and necessity for the treatment of clinical complications from dental trauma without appropriate reimplantation and applied space maintainer. Two clinical cases with dental trauma without appropriate reimplatation and used space maintainer resulting in complications of the dental arch were treated with different orthodontic techniques. The first clinical case ...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the frequency of use of mouthguards among a representative sample of Ontario schoolchildren, the type of mouthguard most commonly used and reasons for noncompliance during sporting activities. MATERIALS AND METHODS A population-based, matched case-control study was undertaken in a total of 30 schools in 2 suburban Ontario communities. Dental hygienists trained in the...

AIM The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence of traumatic dental injuries to permanent incisors and explore the association between dental trauma and overweight in a sample of school children residing in an urban area. Our hypothesis was that there was a significant association between overweight and the presence of dental trauma among urban children. MATERIAL AND METHODS ...

OBJECTIVES To investigate Hong Kong secondary school students' knowledge of emergency management of dental trauma. METHOD A questionnaire survey on randomly selected secondary school students using cluster sampling. RESULTS Only 36.6% (209/571) of the respondents were able to correctly identify the appropriate place for treatment of dental injury. 55.2% of the respondents knew the suitable ...

ABSTRACT Objective The aim of this study was to determine the frequency pulp canal obliteration (PCO) after traumatic dental injury (TDI) primary anterior teeth and investigate its relation with related variables. Methods This retrospective has been done records patients selected from Paediatric Dental Trauma Clinic between 2006 2016. Those who had PCO in were aged 0-108 months at time trauma c...