[Traumatic injuries to the teeth for children].
For modern medical care, social background may be an essential factor, and medical care through out the individual's life time appears to have significant meaning. From this point of view, total dental care throughout childhood is being carried out in the field of pediatric dentistry. It can be stated that we pedodontists have a degree of farsight in the treatment of traumatic injuries to the teeth regarding children (the theme of the lecture), since the injured teeth are treated not only as items to be restored but also as a part of the growing body with careful consideration on the effects with regard to orlo-facial growth. It is obvious that epidemiological surveilance is necessary to understand the cause of dental injuries, and also careful attention ought to be paid to the activity of the children to grasp the potential background of dental trauma. Here, I would like to explain the consequences of the serial work on the traumatic injuries to teeth which were carried out in our department. 1) The prevalence of dental injuries in children appeares to be on the increase according to a judgement based on the surveilances form in and out of the country. Also as the parental recognition for dental injuries became higher, more patients visited dental clinic or hospital looking for improved treatment techniques. 2) Careful consideration must be paid to the succedaneus permanent tooth germ, when a deciduous tooth suffered from traumatic injury. The effect of the direction applied and the area of the traumatic force on the root of the deciduous tooth, the successor and the surrounding tissue was investigated by means of kinetic analysis.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D014082:Tooth Fractures; D018677:Tooth Injuries; D014092:Tooth Root / Q000293:injuries*; D014094:Tooth, Deciduous / Q000293:injuries*