Journal of Emergency Practice and Trauma

A case report of an isolated traumatic dental injury in an 8-year-old child

Document Type : Case Report

Authors

Seyed Reza Habibzadeh 1
Hamid Zamani Moghadam 1
Neema John Mehramiz 2
Mahdi Foroughian 3

1 Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical sciences, Mashhad, Iran.

2 Department of Psychiatry & Neurology, Banner University Medical Center, Tucson, Arizona, USA

3 Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical sciences, Mashhad, Iran

https://doi.org/10.34172/jept.2019.18
Abstract
Objective: Anterior teeth are of utmost importance with regard to chewing, speaking, and beauty. Therefore, any traumatic dental injury has psychologically undesirable effects on children and their parents. The present study reported a case of a traumatic dental injury induced by falling off a bike and referral to an emergency department as well as measures taken for dental reconstruction and patient’s improvement.
Case Presentation: An 8-year-old child was taken to an emergency department due to falling off a bike following imbalance, while suffering from dental pain in his upper jaw due to dental subluxation. Afterwards, dental retaining paste along with a fixer wire was used to maintain the position of the teeth. The patient also received oral non-steroidal analgesia (acetaminophen) for proper control of the pain and was subsequently referred to a dentist to repair the teeth. The initial examinations revealed that the child was fully conscious. Considering the patient’s severe pain and intrusion of the superior left primary first tooth and the subluxation of the superior right primary first tooth. Local anesthesia was performed using 1% lidocaine in the location of the given teeth using infiltration technique. Then they were brought into an alignment by extracting the plunged tooth and the child was referred to a dentist for advanced dental trauma care.
Conclusion: Dentists are not always present in hospital emergency departments; therefore, an emergency medicine specialist should be able to diagnose common traumatic dental injuries in order to manage them appropriately at the early stages, and if necessary, refer patients to dentists for further complementary treatments. This important fact will be
done after full examination and ruling out critical causes of trauma in the emergency department.

Keywords

Child
Trauma
Injury
Tooth
Subjects
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Journal of Emergency Practice and Trauma
Volume 7, Issue 1
January 2021
Pages 63-65

  • Receive Date 12 July 2019
  • Revise Date 18 September 2019
  • Accept Date 29 September 2019

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