BACKGROUND Oral and dental injuries contribute to a major part of sports related injuries in children. Trauma occurring in developing years disrupts normal social functioning and brings about a major impact on quality of life due to their cumulative effect. OBJECTIVES To assess the prevalence and causes of various sports related traumatic orodental injuries among 8 to 16 year school students ...

traumatic injuries in the primary dentition pose major challenges for management. this emergency treatment requires proper planning so as to achieve favorable results. trauma causing severe dentoalveolar injuries, especially in children, needs an interdisciplinary approach so as to retain normal functional anatomy for that age. this article describes a clinical innovative technique, which utili...

Background/Aims Traumatic dental injuries (TDIs) in the primary dentition are a significant public health problem, which has been neglected worldwide. Despite its high prevalence, limited studies address this injury. The aim of study was to determine characteristics and treatment modalities TDIs affecting teeth, along with accompanying medical co-morbidities attendance at follow-up appointments...

News In the early 2000s, Thailand was in the throes of rolling out universal health care for its citizens and Prathip Phantumvanit knew – from years of dental practice and research – that tooth decay was remarkably widespread among adults and children for a developing country. Phantumvanit teamed up with the health ministry to create a new cadre of dental nurses to staff rural health centres an...

BACKGROUND Radiation technology focuses on delivering the radiation as precisely as possible to the tumor, nonetheless both acute and long-term damage to surrounding normal tissue may develop. Injuries to the surrounding normal tissue after radiotherapy of head and neck cancer are difficult to manage. An animal model is needed to elucidate good treatment modalities. The aim of this study was to...

Rostral mandibular and maxillary factures are the most common type of fractures sustained to the head of the horse. They are most often seen in younger animals with deciduous or mixed deciduous and permanent dentition. These injuries are frequently seen to arise from falls or kicks, biting behavior with tie-up chains, or involvement with window bars or mangers. Rare cases are iatrogenic from de...

infantile hemiplegia refers to brain injuries that occur before or at birth and lead to hemiplegia/ total paralysis of one side of the body, including the face, arm and leg. the main purpose of this article is to provide valuable information to pediatric dentists about the review and treatment alternatives for patients with infantile hemiplegia. this article reports the case of a 12-year-old gi...

root fracture injuries affect up to 7% of permanent teeth. this type of injury is rarely seen in teeth with open apices and depending on the fracture site, the prognosis is good. this case report describes a horizontal intra-alveolar root fracture in the middle third of a maxillary central incisor associated with an extrusive luxation of the coronal segment and its treatment in a 6-year-old gir...

A longitudinal complicated crown-root fracture of an unerupted permanent incisor following trauma to primary teeth is reported. The development of the affected permanent tooth was not disturbed during a follow-up period of six years. Traumatic injuries to primary teeth can be transmitted to the permanent dentition because of the close relationship between the apices of primary teeth and the dev...