Traumatic dental injuries (TDI) is a common cause of tooth damage and loss in the young and adolescent age group. As children start to attend school and engage in various physical activities, trauma to the teeth, especially anterior teeth, becomes common. However it has been shown that the correct knowledge to manage TDI is not adequate among local physical education teachers, who are likely to...

Extraction of an impacted third molar is one of the most frequently performed techniques in oral and maxillofacial surgery. Surgeons can suffer numerous external injuries while extracting a tooth, with percutaneous injuries to the hand being the most commonly reported. In this article, we present a case involving a percutaneous injury of the surgeon's femoral region caused by breakage of the fi...

Maxillary incisors are the most frequently injured teeth in the primary and permanent dentition. Stage of adolescence show a significant number of dental injuries as they engage in contact sports. Children with accident prone profile, i.e. class II division I or class I type II malocclusion are more prone for injuries because of the proclined maxillary incisors. Supernumerary teeth are those th...

OBJECTIVES To assess and compare the knowledge of rugby players regarding first-aid measures for dental injuries. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted at rugby tournaments in 2009 and 2010 on players aged 16 and over. Convenient sampling was performed. A total of 456 self-administered questionnaires were returned. Data collected were analysed using SPSS 21. Descriptive analysis was u...

BACKGROUND The study aims to ascertain the prevalence of traumatic dental injures of the maxillary permanent incisors at Dental Department, Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences Islamabad during the years 2003-2005. Information concerning age, sex, cause, type of tooth, number of injured teeth and patterns of tooth injury were recorded retrospectively from 336 patients aged between 8-40 years,...

When a tooth is avulsed and replanted following traumatic dental injury, complications such as replacement and inflammatory resorption may occur. Ultimately, resorption may result in loss of the tooth. This case report describes a traumatic injury to a permanent tooth resulting in complete root resorption within a short period, which required surgery. In the present case, improper treatment mea...

J. ellet and BB guns usually are not included in gun control laws and too often are marketed as toys. Christoffel et al. reported that nonpowder firearm injuries are almost as prevalent as those from powder firearms, and more than 25% of airgun injuries involve the eyes, face, or other areas of the head and neck. There are many reports in the literature of injuries from air gun-propelled projec...

Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence of Traumatic Dental Injuries (TDI) in children who attended the Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, SRM Dental College, Chennai between the years 2013-2016 and to analyze the factors associated with it. Materials and Methods: A retrospective study was carried out to retrieve data about the prevalence, gender, age,...

OBJECTIVE . The aim was to overview the etiology, prevalence and possible outcomes of dental trauma. MATERIAL AND METHODS An electronic search of Medline (PubMed), Cochrane, SSCI (Social Citation Index), SCI (Science Citation Index) databases from 1995 to the present, using the following search words: tooth injuries, tooth trauma, traumatized teeth, dental trauma, dentoalveolar trauma, oral t...