Online encyclopedia of dental trauma

A. Responses of the Dental and Oral Tissues to Injury

B. Factors Affecting Healing of the Dental and Oral Tissues following Trauma

– Common dental and oral traumatic injuries

– Potential consequences of the various injuries to the teeth and oral tissues including the long-term prognosis for each tissue

– Different healing responses of the pulp, peri-radicular and soft tissues following trauma

– Factors that affect the healing of these tissues following trauma

– Management plans to minimise the consequences of trauma to the teeth.

Recommended for: Therapists, Endodontists, Maxillofacial surgeons, General dentists.

A. Responses of the Dental and Oral Tissues to Injury

B. Factors Affecting Healing of the Dental and Oral Tissues following Trauma

– Common dental and oral traumatic injuries

– Potential consequences of the various injuries to the teeth and oral tissues including the long-term prognosis for each tissue

– Different healing responses of the pulp, peri-radicular and soft tissues following trauma

– Factors that affect the healing of these tissues following trauma

– Management plans to minimise the consequences of trauma to the teeth.

Recommended for: Therapists, Endodontists, Maxillofacial surgeons, General dentists.

A. General Principles and Classification of Resorption

B. External Surface Resorption

C. Ankylosis

D. External Replacement Resorption 

E. External Inflammatory Resorption – Part 1

– Different types of external tooth resorption that are associated with trauma to the teeth

– Pathogenesis of the different types of external tooth resorption related to trauma

– Factors that predispose teeth to external tooth resorption during and after trauma to the tooth

– Ankylosis and its relationship to trauma and the different types of external resorption

– Diagnosis and management of external surface resorption

– Difference between external replacement resorption and external inflammatory resorption

– Diagnosis and management of external replacement resorption 

– Strategies to reduce the chances of external replacement resorption occurring following trauma to a tooth.

Recommended for: Therapists, Endodontists, Maxillofacial surgeons, General dentists.

A. Preventive Management

B. Interceptive Management

– Pathogenesis of external inflammatory resorption related to trauma

– Pathogenesis of external inflammatory resorption when related to long-standing infected root canal systems

– Diagnosis and management of external inflammatory resorption

– Strategies to prevent external inflammatory resorption following specific injuries to the teeth, including when root canal treatment should be commenced

– Strategies to manage external inflammatory resorption when it is already present - i.e. the interceptive management of this resorption

– Long-term prognosis of teeth that have had external inflammatory resorption.

Recommended for: Therapists, Endodontists, Maxillofacial surgeons, General dentists.

– General principles for managing trauma to the teeth and oral tissues

– Key elements of the examination and assessment of patients following trauma to the teeth and oral region

– Importance of pulp sensibility tests and radiographs following trauma to the teeth

– Different types of splints used to stabilize the teeth and the alveolar bone following trauma

– Indications for the use of the different types of splints and their duration of use

– Options available for emergency management of pulp exposures, especially with a view to preservation of the pulp

– Management of post-operative discomfort/pain following the initial management of traumatic dental injuries

– The use of systemic and local medications following trauma to the teeth and oral region

– The importance of, and the need for, follow-ups for patients who have had trauma to the teeth and oral region

– The follow-up schedule following trauma to the teeth and oral region.

Recommended for: Therapists, Endodontists, Maxillofacial surgeons, General dentists.

A. Fractures: Crown fractures, Crown-root fractures 

B. Concussion and Subluxation

C. Extrusion and Lateral Luxation

D. Intrusion and Avulsion

– The emergency management of specific injuries to the teeth and oral tissues

– Management of crown and crown-root fractures in the emergency situation

– Management of tooth concussion and subluxation injuries

– Methods to reposition teeth that have been extruded, laterally luxated and intruded

– The emergency management of teeth following extrusion and lateral luxation

– The options for management of intruded teeth in the emergency setting along with the advantages and disadvantages of each option

– The emergency management of avulsed teeth

– The medium-term and long-term follow-up management for these injuries

– Prognosis for teeth following each of the above injuries.

Recommended for: Therapists, Endodontists, Maxillofacial surgeons, General dentists.

– New classification for transverse root fractures

– Various responses to transverse root fractures

– Prognosis for teeth following transverse root fractures according to the position of the fracture

– The immediate management of teeth that have had a transverse root fracture

– The endodontic management protocols for teeth that develop pulp necrosis and infection of the root canal system following a transverse root fracture.

Recommended for: Therapists, Endodontists, Maxillofacial surgeons, General dentists.

– Importance of pulp preservation in teeth with incompletely developed roots

– The situations where immature teeth may become pulpless and infected

– Three management options for pulpless, infected immature teeth

– Advantages and disadvantages of the three management options for pulpless, infected immature teeth

– Healing responses following treatment with the three options.

– Whether calcium hydroxide has any detrimental effects on tooth strength

– Appropriate management option for the various situations where immature teeth have become pulpless and infected

– Treatment outcomes and prognosis for teeth treated via the three management options for immature teeth, especially the longer-term prognosis.

Recommended for: Therapists, Endodontists, Maxillofacial surgeons, General dentists.

– Three types of internal resorption of teeth 

– Aetiology and pathogenesis of the different types of internal resorption

– How to differentially diagnose the three types of internal resorption

- Management of each type of internal resorption

– Outcomes of treatment of internal inflammatory resorption

– Prognosis for teeth with each type of internal resorption.

Recommended for: Therapists, Endodontists, Maxillofacial surgeons, General dentists.