Guidelines for the management of traumatic dental injuries. III. Primary teeth

Flores, Marie Therese
Malmgren, Barbro
Andersson, Lars
Andreasen, Jens Ove
Bakland, Leif K.
Barnett, Frederick
Bourguignon, Cecilia
DiAngelis, Anthony
Hicks, Lamar
Sigurdsson, Asgeir
Trope, Martin
Tsukiboshi, Mitsuhiro
van Arx, Thomas

¹Pediatric Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Valparaiso, Valparaiso, Chile; ²Department of Pediatrics, Karolinska Institute, Huddinge, Sweden; ³Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Dentistry, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait; ⁴Department of Oral and Maxillofacial surgery, University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark; ⁵Endodontics, School of Dentistry, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA, USA; ⁶Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA; ⁷Private Practice, Paris, France; ⁸Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA; ⁹Endodontics, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA; ¹⁰Private Practice, Reykjavik, Iceland; ¹¹Endodontics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; ¹²Private Practice, Nagoya, Japan; ¹³Oral Surgery and Stomatology, University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland

Marie Therese Flores, The International Association of Dental Traumatology, PO Box 1057, Loma Linda, CA 92354, USA. Tel.: +56 32 250 8690 http://www.iadt-dentaltrauma.org; e-mail: [email protected].

Dental Traumatology 23(4):p 196-202, August 2007.

Trauma to the primary dentition present special problems and the management is often different as compared with permanent teeth. An appropriate emergency treatment plan is important for a good prognosis. Guidelines are useful for delivering the best care possible in an efficient manner. The International Association of Dental Traumatology (IADT) has developed a consensus statement after a review of the dental literature and group discussions. Experienced researchers and clinicians from various specialties were included in the group. In cases in which the data did not appear conclusive, recommendations were based on the consensus opinion of the IADT board members. The guidelines represent the current best evidence based on literature research and professional opinion. In this third article out of three, the IADT Guidelines for the management of traumatic injuries in the primary dentition, are presented.