OBJECTIVES To identify the major causes and types of dental luxation and avulsion injuries, and their associated factors in primary school children in Hong Kong. DESIGN Case series. SETTING School dental clinic, New Territories, Hong Kong. PATIENTS The dental records of children with a history of dental luxation and/or avulsion injury between November 2005 and October 2012 were reviewed. ...

AIM The aim of the present study was to identify some factors related to the occurrence of dental trauma in mixed and permanent dentition. DESIGN OF THE STUDY Over a period of two months 1325, 6 to 18 year olds from three primary schools in Valencia were examined. Data was collected through clinical examinations and interviews and their Dental trauma was classified according to IADT's criteri...

introduction: contact sports may lead to dental injures, which may often be prevented by using mouthguards. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of traumatic dental injuries (tdi) in professional contact sport athletes and to determine the awareness regarding use of mouthguards in this group. methods: a questionnaire containing a number of  questions regarding the demographi...

BACKGROUND The risk of occupational exposure to blood borne pathogens (including hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV) via sharp injuries such as needle stick injuries (NSIs) among health care workers, especially dental, nursing and midwifery students is a challenging issue. Inadequate staff, lack of experience, insufficient training, duty overload and fatigue may lead to occupational sharp injurie...

Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence of Traumatic Dental Injuries (TDI) in children who attended the Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, SRM Dental College, Chennai between the years 2013-2016 and to analyze the factors associated with it. Materials and Methods: A retrospective study was carried out to retrieve data about the prevalence, gender, age,...

Tooth injuries are serious clinical conditions. Some children experience dental trauma only once, while others are more prone to repeated tooth injuries. Repeated dental trauma occurs in 19.4% to 30% of patients. Pain and dental trauma are the most common reasons for fear and anxiety. The main objective of this study was to investigate how dental trauma, as well as repeated dental trauma affect...

BACKGROUND Perioperative dental injury (PDI) is a common adverse event associated with anesthesia that can easily lead to medicolegal litigation. A quality improvement program was conducted with the electronic, standardized dental chart to document dentition before anesthesia and dentist consultation when necessary. This study aimed to reduce PDIs through execution of a quality improvement prog...

Background: Developing cell-based therapeutic methods for the differentiation of various stem cells to the dental tissues could be a revolutionary step towards the use of cell therapy for dental disease. In the present study, we aimed to systematically review the literature to establish the efficiency of stem cells in treatment of various dental diseases. Methods: A literature search was perfo...

AIM To systematically review epidemiological articles assessing traumatic dental injuries (TDI) rates according to the physical activity habits and nutritional status. METHODS A search was conducted using PubMed, ISI, Scopus, SciELO, LILACS, and gray literature in Brazilian Theses Databank. We searched for dental trauma, traumatic dental injuries, tooth injuries, tooth fractures, physical act...