Introduction: Children generally suffer from dental traumas to their primary teeth. Traumas may lead to complications, depending on the site and potency of the injuries. The acute dental abscess usually occurs secondary to dental caries or dental trauma. The necrotic pulp tissue becomes colonized by a specialized mixed anaerobic biofilm. Case Presentation: A 5-year-old boy referred to clinic (G...

BACKGROUND The Ministry of Health published in November 2012 the "National guidelines for the prevention and clinical management of dental trauma in individuals during their developmental age". The aim of this study is to verify the knowledge among parents of children of primary schools to plan corrective actions. METHODS The study was carried out filling in an anonymous questionnaire distrib...

Traumatic dental injuries occur frequently in children and young adults. Orofacial trauma that results in fractured, displaced or lost teeth can have signifi cant negative functional, esthetic and psychological effect on child. Intrusive luxation of teeth results in axial impacts on maxillary and mandibular teeth and is considered one of the most severe types of dental trauma because of the ris...

Abstract Objectives The prevalence of recurrent aphthous stomatitis (RAS) among the general population worldwide is 20%. This study aims to discover any correlations between RAS predisposing factors and gender year undergraduate dental students at Faculty Dental Medicine Airlangga University. Methods A cross-sectional analytical using simple random sampling was performed. respondents answered s...

A review of state-of-the-art maxillofacial imaging is presented. Current imaging techniques include intra-oral radiographs, dental panoramic tomography, multidetector helical computed tomography, cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The commonest conditions encountered in clinical radiological practice are reviewed, including maxillofacial deformities, comp...

Jt" oreign objects frequently have been reported in the oral and nasal structures of children.' The presence of many of these objects has been discovered during routine dental radiographic examinations and has been related to trauma, iatrogenic loss of dental instruments," or placement by the child. The purpose of this paper is to report a case of a foreign object in the cheek of a child dental...

Root fracture is relatively rare and represents only 0.5-7% of all dental trauma, its incidence higher in children than adults depending on the way it occurs can be vertical or horizontal,

BACKGROUND The dental professional may see pediatric patients who have signs of intraoral trauma, perioral trauma or both. Evaluation should include the possibility of nonaccidental, deliberately inflicted abuse. Reporting such injuries is mandated. METHODS The authors reviewed the criminal and civil statutes in all 50 states to determine what role dental professionals are required to play in...

The purpose of this retrospective study was to evaluate contributing factors in patients requiring surgical retreatment of mandibular fractures. Of all the patients with mandibular fractures who were treated using internal fixation at a trauma hospital over a seven-year period, 20 patients (4.7%) required a second surgery and thus composed the "reoperated" group. The control group comprised 42 ...

background and aims. trauma is one of the major factors associated with temporomandibular joint disorders (tmd). these disorders result from macro-trauma or micro-trauma. macro-trauma might be iatrogenic; for example, from intubation procedures, third molar extraction procedures, and lengthy dental appointments. the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of lengthy root canal therapy (mor...