Decision-making for children with traumatized permanent incisors: a holistic approach.
Traumatic injury to permanent central incisors is a common occurrence in childhood and adolescence. It is of paramount importance that expedient and appropriate care is provided to ensure an optimum short- and long-term outcome for injured teeth and, importantly, the patients themselves. Treatment planning should thus adopt a holistic approach, taking into account a number of patient- and dental-related factors. Multidisciplinary care, involving paediatric dentistry, orthodontics or oral and maxillofacial surgery may be indicated. Decisions should also be informed by a sound understanding of the exact nature and prognosis of the presenting dental injury.


CONCLUSIONS
Poor primary management of dental trauma may have lifelong consequences for the young patient.
Rodd
Helen D
HD
Department of Oral Health and Development, School of Dentistry, University of Sheffield, UK.
Murray
Alison M
AM
Yesudian
Grainne
G
Lewis
Benjamin R K
BR
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D003657:Decision Making; D005260:Female; D006694:Holistic Health; D006801:Humans; D007180:Incisor / Q000293:injuries*; D008297:Male; D009970:Orthodontics; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010377:Pediatric Dentistry; D011379:Prognosis; D012307:Risk Factors; D012737:Sex Factors; D013515:Surgery, Oral; D016896:Treatment Outcome