Dental Trauma
Definition
Dental trauma is injury to the teeth, gums, and jawbones. The most common dental trauma is a broken or displaced tooth.
Description
Dental trauma may be inflicted in a number of ways: contact sports, motor vehicle accidents, fights, falls, eating hard foods, drinking hot liquids, and other such mishaps. Dental trauma includes teeth that are knocked out (dental avulsion), cracked (fractured), forced out of position (dental luxation, lateral displacement, or extrusion), pushed up into the jawbone (dental intrusion), or loosened by impact (subluxation or dental concussion). Oral tissues are sensitive, and injuries to the mouth are...
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