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.
Department of Oral Health and Development, School of Dentistry, University of Sheffield, UK.
Helen D
HD
Rodd
Alison M
AM
Murray
Grainne
G
Yesudian
Benjamin R K
BR
Lewis
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