Background: Tooth avulsion implies total displacement of the tooth out its socket. Many storage media such as milk, saliva, Hank’s Balanced Salt Solution (HBSS), propolis, Viaspan, have been studied medias for preserving PDL cell viability. Amongst these, HBSS has proposed medium choice treatment avulsed teeth by American Associations Endodontists. However, major disadvantage is that it not eas...

Introduction: Lateral luxation is one of the dentoalveolar injuries in children with 11% incidence among young permanent teeth. Tooth repositioning as soon possible needed to stabilize tooth actual anatomical condition, restore esthetic, and function well preventing pulp or periodontal pathologies. Case Report: An 8-year-old girl came complaints wobbling two upper left front teeth due accidenta...

Traumatic injuries to the primary dentition present special problems and the management is often different as compared with the permanent dentition. The International Association of Dental Traumatology (IADT) has developed a consensus statement after a review of the dental literature and group discussions. Experienced researchers and clinicians from various specialities were included in the tas...

Traumatic injuries to the primary dentition present special problems and the management is often different as compared with the permanent dentition. The International Association of Dental Traumatology (IADT) has developed a consensus statement after a review of the dental literature and group discussions. Experienced researchers and clinicians from various specialities were included in the tas...

OBJECTIVE In contrast to epidemiologic studies on facial injuries reporting on dental trauma, facial bone fractures with dentoalveolar injuries, or soft tissue injuries individually, the purpose of this study was to evaluate the overall place of dental trauma in facial injuries. This was a retrospective investigation of the impact of sport, work, violence, traffic, household, and play accidents...

BACKGROUND There is significant prevalence of physical injuries sustained by civilian recruits at military training garrisons. Civilian recruits sustain these injuries mostly during the intensive and rigorous military combat-training period. OBJECTIVES We sought to determine the prevalence and causes of oral and maxillofacial injuries as the first step in reducing and preventing them in civil...

INTRODUCTION To obtain essential information in clinical endodontics, cone-beam computed tomographic (CBCT) imaging can be used in all phases of treatment including diagnosis, treatment planning, during the treatment phase, and through post-treatment assessment and follow-up. The purpose of this article was to review the use of CBCT imaging in the diagnosis, treatment planning, and assessing th...

BACKGROUND Traumatic injuries to teeth and their supporting structures during childhood are one of the major problems faced by the dentist in day to day practice. Children usually encounter minor accidents in their routine activities and hence, it of utmost importance to provide emergency care to reduce such outcomes. Most of children with dental trauma present late for treatment due to lack of...

Like other types of human teeth, the permanent first molar (PFM) has important masticatory function. Since its development and eruption is almost predictable, and the tooth can resist taphonomic conditions, it can form part of possible materials for use in forensic dentistry. The enamel, which forms the coronal outer covering of the tooth, is the hardest tissue of the tooth and is seen with lus...