Dental trauma

Headline
History Mechanism
Account for all missing teeth - risk aspiration?
Examination
Diagnostic investigations
Differentials
Immediate management Avulsed permanent teeth - keep in milk/saliva → dentist
Fractured teeth - dentist
Ongoing management

classification of dental fractures

  • Enamel
  • Enamel + dentine
  • Complicated crown (extends through pulp) - pain!!!!
  • Root
  • Alveolar bone fracture
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