ABSTRACT

Dental trauma refers to an injury to the teeth and/or other hard and soft tissues within and around the vicinity of the oral cavity. It results in functional, aesthetic and psychological disturbances among children. Involvement of children in sports activities, accidents are considered to be the major risk factors which lead to the cause of various traumatic dental injuries and these factors have contributed to transform these injuries into an important public health problem. The main objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of traumatic dental injury among school children who visited Saveetha Dental College. This was a retrospective study in which sample size was about 998. It was conducted among school children aged from 8 to 17 years, who came for dental check-up at Saveetha Dental College, Chennai Excel tabulation was done and data analysis was performed in SPSS software (Version 26.0). Out of 998 patients only (5.1%) of them had traumatic dental injury (TDI). Males had higher (4.1%) prevalence of traumatic dental injury than females (1%). Most common type of teeth involved in traumatic dental injury was anterior (4.8%). Significant association was not found using chi square analysis in between gender and dental traumatic injury (p > 0.05) and whereas p value ( p < 0.05) was significant while correlating the tooth involved and traumatic dental injury . From the examined population, males had higher prevalence of traumatic dental injury than females and the most common type of teeth involved in traumatic dental injury was anterior teeth . Lesser prevalence rate of traumatic dental injury among the selected population was found. Awareness programmes based on the prevalence of TDI among both parents and children to be conducted. Prevention through various health promotions and correction of predisposing risk factors should be carried out to minimize the prevalence of dental injury. Keywords: Anterior teeth, Dental injuries, Prevalence, School children, Trauma
Publication date: 01/08/2021

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https://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2021/10.8.1091