title: Incidence of traumatic tooth injuries in children and adolescents in the county of Västmanland, Sweden.
abstract: The study reports the total incidence as well as the incidence of different types of traumatic tooth injuries in a Swedish county in the age interval 0-19 years during 1989/90. The incidence of individuals experiencing tooth injuries was 13 per 1000 per year. Boys were more frequently injured in the age-groups 3-4 years and 7-9 years and girls, in the age-group 5-6 years. A method is presented defining uncomplicated and complicated tooth injuries as a basis for estimating the economic consequences of these injuries in the community. Boys more often suffered uncomplicated injuries to permanent teeth and girls, to primary teeth (p < 0.05). The same distribution was found for uncomplicated multiple tooth injuries. Boys sustained more uncomplicated hard tissue injuries and girls, more uncomplicated luxation injuries (p < 0.01). Using a classification according to the most serious tooth injury in each episode, 33% of the episodes had resulted in complicated injuries in which the pulpal tissue and/or periodontal membrane was severely damaged.
authors: Department of Community Dentistry, Linköping, Sweden.
authors: U
authors: U
authors: Glendor
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Halling
authors: L
authors: L
authors: Andersson
authors: E
authors: E
authors: Eilert-Petersson
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D017677:Age Distribution; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003789:Dental Pulp Exposure / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D017678:Sex Distribution; D012744:Sex Ratio; D013548:Sweden / Q000453:epidemiology; D014084:Tooth Avulsion / Q000453:epidemiology; D014082:Tooth Fractures / Q000453:epidemiology; D018677:Tooth Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology*; D014092:Tooth Root / Q000293:injuries; D014094:Tooth, Deciduous