title: Pulp and periodontal healing after replantation of a maxillary immature incisor: a 13-year follow-up.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Traumatic tooth avulsions occur most often in 7 to 9 year-old children. Replantation is considered the treatment of choice and follow-up is required in order to prevent possible complications.
  
  
  METHODS
  A case of replantation of a maxillary immature incisor in a 9.2-year-old male is reported. Tooth 21 was stored in saliva, in the child's mouth, and it was replanted within 45 min following a bicycle accident. A flexible splint was applied from tooth 11 to tooth 63, and it was removed after 4 weeks. Pulp canal obliteration was diagnosed at the 6 months check-up visit. Pulp sensibility was positive after 3 months and absent after 5 years. During the follow-up the tooth completed its development and always presented a physiological mobility and a probing depth <3 mm. Only a minimal discoloration of the crown was observed.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The knowledge of emergency care at the scene of dental trauma is resolutory for treatment outcome.
authors.affiliation: Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Department of Biomedical, Surgical and Dental Sciences, Unit of Orthodontics and Paediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Biagi
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003782:Dental Pulp / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007180:Incisor / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008437:Maxilla / Q000601:surgery*; D010519:Periodontium / Q000503:physiopathology*; D014084:Tooth Avulsion / Q000601:surgery*; D014090:Tooth Replantation; D014945:Wound Healing