Guideline on management of acute dental trauma.

Purpose The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD) intends these guidelines to define, describe appearances, and set forth objectives for general management of acute traumatic dental injuries rather than recommend specific treatment procedures that have been presented in considerably more detail in textbooks and the dental/medical literature. Methods This guideline is an update of the previous document revised in 2007. It is based on a review of the current dental and medical literature related to dental trauma. An electronic search was conducted using the following parameters: Terms: " teeth " , " trauma " , " permanent teeth " , and " primary teeth " ; Fields: all; Limits: within the last 10 years, humans, English. There were 5269 articles that matched these criteria. Papers for review were chosen from this list and from references within select articles. In addition, a review of the journal Dental Traumatology was conducted for the years 2000-2009. When data did not appear sufficient or were inconclusive, recommendations were based upon expert and/or consensus opinion including those from the 2008 AAPD " Symposium on Trauma: A Comprehensive Update on Permanent Tooth Trauma in Children " (Chicago, Ill.). The recommendations are congruent with the 2007 guidelines developed by the International Association of Dental Traumatology.