Management of severe traumatic intrusion in the permanent dentition

Traumatic Dental Injuries to the Permanent Dentition

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...

AAPD and AAE symposium overview: Contemporary management of traumatic injuries to the permanent dentition.

A multidisciplinary approach to the management of traumatic intrusion in immature permanent teeth.

Intrusion in a developing permanent tooth is an extremely complicated traumatic injury and is rarely seen in the permanent dentition. The damage caused by the trauma to the surrounding tooth structures results in a multitude of complications during the healing process. Careful repositioning of the intruded tooth by orthodontic means, revascularisation of the immature tooth to regain vitality, a...

Odontoma-like Malformation in Permanent Dentition Due to Severe Trauma in Deciduous Dentition – Case Report

This report describes a case of a 14-year-old girl showing a late eruption of the central and upper right central incisor. The intrusion of superior front incisors occurred when the patient was ten months old. Radiographic examination revealed the presence of an odontoma-like malformation on element 12. The objective of this report is to describe the diagnostic procedures, the etiology, the cli...

Primary Tooth Trauma Leads to Developmental Disturbance of Permanent Dentition Traumatic Intrusion of Primary Teeth and Its Effects on the Permanent Successors: A Clinical Follow-Up Study

Background: Traumatic injury to primary teeth is a very common phenomenon as kids are often involved in facial trauma, and because the central incisors hold a prominent position in the facial profile. The standard of treatment is to extract the teeth if severely mobile or to leave them if stable. Of interest is the effect of the injury to the developing permanent dentition. These effects can ra...