Guidelines for the management of traumatic dental injuries

Trauma to the primary dentition present special problems and the management is often different as compared with permanent teeth. An appropriate emergency treatment plan is important for a good prognosis. Guidelines are useful for delivering the best care possible in an efficient manner. The International Association of Dental Traumatology (IADT) has developed a consensus statement after a review of the dental literature and group discussions. Experienced researchers and clinicians from various specialties were included in the group. In cases in which the data did not appear conclusive, recommendations were based on the consensus opinion of the IADT board members. The guidelines represent the current best evidence based on literature research and professional opinion. In this third article out of three, the IADT Guidelines for the management of traumatic injuries in the primary dentition, are presented. Marie Therese Flores, Barbro Malmgren, Lars Andersson, Jens Ove Andreasen, Leif K. Bakland, Frederick Barnett, Cecilia Bourguignon, Anthony DiAngelis, Lamar Hicks, Asgeir Sigurdsson, Martin Trope, Mitsuhiro Tsukiboshi, Thomas von Arx 1 Pediatric Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Valparaiso, Valparaiso, Chile; 2 Department of Pediatrics, Karolinska Institute, Huddinge, Sweden; 3 Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Dentistry, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait; 4 Department of Oral and Maxillofacial surgery, University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark; 5 Endodontics, School of Dentistry, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA, USA; 6 Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA; 7 Private Practice, Paris, France; 8 Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA; 9 Endodontics, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA; 10 Private Practice, Reykjavik, Iceland; 11 Endodontics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; 12 Private Practice, Nagoya, Japan; 13 Oral Surgery and Stomatology, University of Berne, Berne,