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Dental trauma - Dilemmas in Managing Traumatic Dental Injuries
Scientific Programme (On Demand)
Session Description
Dental trauma - dilemmas in managing traumatic dental injuries
Dental traumatic injuries are very common but many dentists are unsure about the best way to manage specific injuries. Several research reports have also indicated that dentists’ knowledge of the appropriate emergency management procedures for many injurers is less than adequate. The poor knowledge also extends to how to manage the more severe complications and sequelae of traumatic dental injuries. In this symposium, discussions will focus on the three major dilemmas associated with managing trauma – immediately and in the long term. One of the most important aspects is to assess the traumatized patient through a thorough examination, imaging and tests. Once this information has been gathered and analysed, the immediate management can be undertaken. However, even with the best and recommended management, some teeth will not be able to be preserved in the long term. Hence, further dilemmas arise in how to preserve the teeth and, if this is not possible, then how can the bone be preserved. Preservation of the bone is important as this can simplify, or at least, help with the replacement of teeth that cannot be preserved. There are various choices for situations where tooth loss is inevitable and these will be explored with case examples and recommendations.
Learning Objectives
Dental traumatic injuries are very common but many dentists are unsure about the best way to manage specific injuries. Several research reports have also indicated that dentists’ knowledge of the appropriate emergency management procedures for many injurers is less than adequate. The poor knowledge also extends to how to manage the more severe complications and sequelae of traumatic dental injuries. In this symposium, discussions will focus on the three major dilemmas associated with managing trauma – immediately and in the long term. One of the most important aspects is to assess the traumatized patient through a thorough examination, imaging and tests. Once this information has been gathered and analysed, the immediate management can be undertaken. However, even with the best and recommended management, some teeth will not be able to be preserved in the long term. Hence, further dilemmas arise in how to preserve the teeth and, if this is not possible, then how can the bone be preserved. Preservation of the bone is important as this can simplify, or at least, help with the replacement of teeth that cannot be preserved. There are various choices for situations where tooth loss is inevitable and these will be explored with case examples and recommendations.
Learning Objectives
• Discuss the priorities in assessing a patient who has just suffered dental trauma, with emphasis on the differences between paediatric, adolescent and adult patients.
• Outline the strategies that can be used to preserve traumatized teeth and the associated alveolar bone.
• Discuss issues associated with delayed replantation of an avulsed tooth, ankylosis and replacement resorption.
• Discuss the management options for teeth that may be inevitably lost despite having had the recommended emergency management following trauma.
• Outline when decoronation and implant replacement treatments can be predictably performed.
Dr Paul Abbott
Dilemmas in Managing Traumatic Dental Injuries
Programme details to be confirmed
Learning Objectives
• Dilemmas in assessing the acute trauma patient
• Dilemmas in the preservation of teeth and bone
• Dilemmas in managing inevitable tooth loss in young patients
Dr Lars Andersson
Dr Paul Abbott
Dilemmas in Managing Traumatic Dental Injuries
Programme details to be confirmed
Learning Objectives
• Dilemmas in assessing the acute trauma patient
• Dilemmas in the preservation of teeth and bone
• Dilemmas in managing inevitable tooth loss in young patients
Dr Lars Andersson