PAEDS PRIMARY TRAUMA Flashcards
What 3 things might cause trauma in a primary tooth?
- Falls
- Bumping into objects
- Non-accidental
How would you classify injuries in the dental hard tissues and pulp? (5)
- Enamel fracture
- Enamel and dentine
- Enamel, dentine and pulp
- Crown-root fracture
- Root fracture
What determines the complexity of dental hard tissues and pulp?
If there is pulp exposure
What are the 7 classifications of supporting tissue trauma?
- Concussion
- Subluxation
- Lateral luxation
- Intrusion
- Extrusion
- Avulsion
- Alveolar fracture
What type of hard tissue fracture?
Primary Enamel only
What type of hard tissue fracture?
Primary Enamel-dentine with no pulp exposure
What type of hard tissue fracture?
Primary Enamel and dentine with exposed pulp
Two types of crown root fractures?
- Complicate or uncomplicated depending on the pulp exposure
Define concussion?
tooth tender to touch but has not been displaced
Define subluxation?
Tooth tender to touch but has increased mobility and has not been displaced?
What are the three types of luxation injuries?
- Lateral luxation
- Intrusion
- Extrusion
What type of trauma is this?
Lateral luxation - displaced in a palatal/lingual or labial direction
What type of trauma is this?
Intrusion - tooth usually displaced through labial bone plate or can impinge in the permanent tooth bud
What type of trauma is this?
Extrusion - partial displacement of the tooth out of the socket
What is avulsion?
When the tooth is completely out of the socket
What is alveolar fracture?
fracture involves the alveolar bone (labial or lingual) and may extend to adjacent bone
What is the most common type of injuries?
Luxation
4 questions you would ask about the injury ?
- When did it occur
- Where did it occur
- How did it occur
- Any other symptoms or injuries
- Where is the lost tooth or fragments?
3 places where a lost tooth/fragments could be ?
- Ingested
- Inhaled
- imbedded in the soft tissues
4 points in the medical history that may impact treatment of injuries?
- Congential heart disease
- history of Rheumatic fever and immunosuppression
- Bleeding disorders
- Allergies
- Tentanus immunisation status
4 extraoral things you would look at when examination a patient presenting with trauma?
- Lacerations
- Haematoma
- Subconjuctival haemorrhage
- Bony step deformities
- Mouth opening
What may tooth mobility indicate when examining a child intra-orally for trauma?
- Displacement
- Root or bone fractures
What special investigation would you carry out to check fracture lines in teeth or pulpal degeneration?
Transillumination
What may a tactile test with probe indicate during examination?
- detect horizontal or vertical fractures
- Pulpal involvement
When carrying out a percussion test , what might a duller note indicate?
Root fracture
What are 6 things examined in a trauma stamp?
- Mobility
- Colour
- TTP
- Sinus
- Percussion note
- Radiograph