The Impact of Traumatic Dental Injuries on the Mental and Social Well-Being of Children and Adolescents: Recommendations for Patient Management

Traumatic injuries to the oral cavity are frequent during childhood, with a documented rate of more than 30% worldwide. These commonly include skull and mouth, thus teeth frequently impacted. Consequently, individual ends up in pain accompanied by both esthetic functional issues. The combination these factors can have detrimental impact upon normal functioning young individual’s lives if injury is not efficiently treated or managed. This then impacts on mental health their quality life. Not being able function as part society that they accustomed to, cause people withdraw from lose self-confidence. negative psychological effect traumatic dental specific an individual, such each patient should be holistically all taken into account. There dearth literature around full psycho-social injuries. Dentistry clinical field advancing treatment injuries, but there still lack knowledge awareness regarding experience how this could managed going forward terms in-chair strategies involvement multi-disciplinary team.