Trauma to teeth may be a result of falls, sports injuries and automobile accidents [1]. Predisposing factors for traumatic injuries to teeth can be post normal occlusion, an over jet more than 4 mm, short upper lip, incompetent lips and mouth breathing [2]. Boys more likely to have tooth trauma than girls, by ratio of 2:1 to 3:1 [3]. Tooth avulsion is a dental emergency usually seen in young ch...

Through the use of a new trauma form, the incidence of various types of oral trauma were reported at The Children’s Hospital Medical Center and two private pedodontic offices. During a one-year period, 338 cases of oral trauma were treated. The major cause of the trauma seen involved falls of various types. Sports and bicycle accidents accounted for a number of injuries as well. The number of t...

Luxational injuries to the permanent anterior teeth in children are a cause of concern. Palatal luxation of maxillary left central incisor with bleeding of gingival sulcus and fracture of maxillary right central incisor involving enamel and dentine in a 9-year- old girl is presented. The dental occlusion was deranged due to the luxation. Management consisted of repositioning of the luxated toot...

Horizontal root fractures are rare when compared to other types of injuries, with a reported incidence rate ranging between 0.5%-7.0%. Fixation of teeth with splints has been recommended as the conservative treatment for horizontal root fractures, given that the pulp usually remains vital in such cases and spontaneous healing with no treatment has been reported in the literature. However, furth...

Management of traumatic injuries to the teeth is a challenge to the practising dentist. It has no prescriptive method for occurring, possesses no significant predictable pattern of intensity or extensiveness and occurring at times when dentists are least prepared for it. Ninety-two percent of traumatic injuries results in fracture of maxillary permanent central incisors because its protrusive a...

Traumatic injuries to the primary dentition are quite common. When primary teeth are subjected to trauma, force transmission and/or invasion of the underlying tooth germs lying in close proximity can result in a variety of disturbances in the permanent successors. Few of these disturbances include hypoplasia, dilaceration, or alteration in the eruption sequence and pattern. Dilaceration is defi...

High minute ventilation is required to lower intracranial pressures in patients with intracranial bleed. Respiratory acidemia consequent to ventilatory difficulty is dangerous in such patients as it further raises intracranial tension. We describe such a case. A 24-year-old man had to be intubated and mechanically ventilated after he met with a road traffic accident and sustained extensive maxi...