Child Dental Trauma 1 article

Child Dental Trauma covers injuries to primary teeth and developing permanent teeth, where age and stage of root development can change both treatment and prognosis. Luxation, avulsion, crown or root fracture and soft-tissue injury require prompt assessment, appropriate imaging and follow-up for pulpal or developmental complications. Management must also consider effects on permanent successors after trauma to primary teeth. Paediatric traumatic injury and healing are the defining problems, requiring developmental considerations that routine caries care and unmodified adult trauma pathways do not address.