Survey On Traumatic Dental Injuries Among Children

Abstract

Traumatic dental injuries are the most common problems and have the highest prevalence rate among children. Dental trauma not only causes pain but also has the potential to adversely affect the development of the permanent teeth. Tooth fractures or dental injuries to the deciduous teeth can cause various problems in permanent teeth such as hypoplasia, discoloration, and delay in eruption time, and tooth malformation. A self administered questionnaire was designed based on the awareness of tooth fracture and dental trauma among the children and was distributed through an online survey planet link. The study population was 100 . The collected data were plotted in the form pie charts. The responses were plotted in the form of pie charts. In this study, the prevalence of traumatic dental injuries was found to be 77.2% and only 50.6% of the children had been taken to a dentist after the dental trauma. From this study it is evident that the majority of the children have experienced dental trauma due to which they have low self confidence and face other kinds of problems in their day to day life. Thus it is important for the parents to take them to a dentist immediately after the trauma to avoid furthermore complications and infections.