Djemal, Serpil;
Aryafar, Mohammadreza;
Petrie, Aviva;
Polycarpou, Nectaria;
Brady, Edward;
Niazi, Sadia;
(2022)
Traumatic dental injuries in adults attending a London-based trauma clinic in the UK: a seven-year survey.
British Dental Journal
, 233
pp. 1022-1028.
10.1038/s41415-022-5313-4.
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Abstract
Introduction: This survey reports the incidence of traumatic dental injuries in an adult population attending an adult dental trauma clinic in a London teaching hospital. Materials and methods: Retrospective data were collected from patients attending an adult dental trauma clinic between 2012 and 2018. Results: In total, 1,769 patients attended, with more men seen (1,030; 58.2%) compared to women (739; 41.8%) and this was statistically significant (p <0.05). The most common aetiological factor was an accidental fall (728; 41.15%), followed by assaults (413; 23.35%), bicycle accidents (253; 14.3%), sports injuries (132; 7.46%) and road traffic accidents (84; 4.75%). Lateral luxation (833) was the most common traumatic injury and this was followed by avulsions (362; 17%). Enamel-dentine fractures were the most common type of fracture injury (1,273; 64%). Discussion: This retrospective survey attempts to report on the incidence of traumatic dental injuries in a London-based cohort of patients attending a specialised dental trauma clinic. In line with other reports, there were more men than women affected, which is probably attributed to behavioural activities. Conclusion(s): Accidental falls are the most common cause of a traumatic dental injury, lateral luxation was the most common type of displacement injury and enamel-dentine fractures were the most common type of fracture injury.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Traumatic dental injuries in adults attending a London-based trauma clinic in the UK: a seven-year survey |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41415-022-5313-4 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41415-022-5313-4 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s) 2022. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. |
| Keywords: | Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Dentistry, Oral Surgery & Medicine, PERMANENT INCISORS, AFTER-HOURS, TEETH, SCHOOLCHILDREN, PREVALENCE, CHILDREN, EPIDEMIOLOGY, POPULATION, NEWCASTLE, OVERJET |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Eastman Dental Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10175604 |
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