Dental injuries in children Flashcards
What are the most commonly affected teeth wrt dental injuries?
Max incisors
What are the most common injuries?
Primary dentition - luxation injuries
Permanent dentition - enamel fractures
What ages do peak incidences occur?
2-4 years - primary incisors
7-10 - perm incisors
m>f (2:1)
Injuries in babies
Highly unlikely - non accidental injury
Injuries in infants
Due to trips and falls as cognitive and motor skills develop
Injuries in childhood
Falls and accidents
Injuries in adolescence
Sporting, fights, assults
What are the predisposing factors towards dental injury
Class 2 div 1 - proclined incisors
lack of soft tissue coverage
increased overjet (3-6mm 2x freq)(>6mm = 3x freq)
medical or physical impairment (cerebral palsy, autism, epilepsy)
Accident prone children, aggressions ADHD and lack of parental supervision
MH questions to check
Bleeding disorders
Reduced immunity
Allergies
Medications
Immunisation status (check tetanus)
Dental history questions to ask
Previous injury to the dentition and management
Past dental experience
Anxiety
Trauma history questions
What happened
When did it happen
How did it happen
Where did it happen
Loss of consciousness/ head injuries/ other injuries
Immediate management
EOE in dental injuries
Observe injuries elsewhere in body
Facial asymmetry
Observe from above and behind pt
Palpation of the facial skeleton
Facial injuries: swellings, lacerations, abrasions, contusions (bruises)
IOE in dental injuries
ST:
Lips, all mucosa palate, tongue, FOM
Check irregularities in occlusion
Teeth:
Position
Mobility
Loss of tooth tissue, i.e. fracture of parts of the tooth or loss of whole tooth
Radiographic examinations to take
PA
Occlusal
DPT
ST views
What is included on a trauma grid?
Colour
Mob
TTP
Vitality
Radiograph
What are you checking for in TTP?
Damage to the PDL (pain)
Percussion tone - if there is a change, the tooth could be locked into the bone due to an intrusive injury - metallic sound on tapping
What we checking with mobility?
Pulp vascularity changes with mobility
If there is a group of teeth that are mobile = alveolar bone fracture
What does transillumination check for?
Infractions of enamel (microcracks)