Pediatric Dental Trauma:Wide Horizon of Ignored Etiological Factors.
Trauma of the oral and peroral structures are one of the most common and frequent complaints after dental caries with which a child is being referred to a dental clinic. As an emergency, we tend to treat the injuries without understanding or neglecting the cause of trauma. The different possible etiological factors are unnoticed, not revealed or not noted while taking the history of the patient. Sometimes negligence of the etiology by the dentist himself or the accompanying person could influence the prognosis and prevention. Thus, this paper is an effort towards exploring the common yet unnoticed etiological factors of pediatric dental trauma which we tend to knowingly ignore.
Professor and Head, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, SDM College of Dental Sciences and Hospital, Dharwad, Karnataka, India.
Rajesh T
RT
Anegundi
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, SDM College of Dental Sciences and Hospital, Dharwad, Karnataka, India.
Shruthi B
SB
Patil
Postgraduate Student, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, SDM College of Dental Sciences and Hospital, Dharwad, Karnataka, India.
Shubha
S
M
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, AME's Dental College, Raichur, Karnataka, India.
Raghavendra
R
Havale
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