Retrospective Study of Traumatic Dental Injuries of Patients Treated at a Dental Trauma Clinic in Santiago, Chile

Abstract

Retrospective study of traumatic dental injuries of patients treated at a dental trauma clinic in Santiago, Chile. Int. J. Odontostomat., 11(4):405-410, 2017. ABSTRACT:The aim of this study was to carry out a retrospective study of cases seen at the Child and Adult Dental Traumatology Clinic, Faculty of Dentistry, Universidad de Chile, Santiago. A retrospective study was carried out analysing the records of patients seen at the Dental Traumatology Clinic, Faculty of Dentistry, Universidad de Chile from January 2012 to March 2017. The inclusion criteria was that patient complaint was due to dental trauma. Data were tabulated indicating age and sex of the patient, cause, day, and tooth involved and the initial diagnosis of the dental trauma. Chi-square, Shapiro Wilk normality test and Mann-Whitney test were used for frequency analyses. A total of 117 dental records were analysed, 90 of these met the inclusion criteria. The age range of the sample was 5 to 60 years, and the average age was 14.3 years. Most injuries occurred in patients during the first and second decades of their life. Of the patients, 59.3 % were men and 40.7 % were women. The most frequent dental traumas were complicated and uncomplicated crown fractures, followed by root fractures. In the majority of the cases analysed, only one tooth was affected, and the tooth most frequently traumatized was the right upper central incisor, followed by the left upper central incisor. The most frequent dental trauma of the cases treated at the Child and Adult Dental Traumatology Clinic, Faculty of Dentistry, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, between 2012 and 2017 were crown fractures.

Prevalence of Dentoalveolar Trauma in Patients at Barros Luco Trudeau Hospital

“…Regarding the distribution of affected teeth, the upper anterior group presented the highest frequency of TDI, specifically in central (57%) and lateral (22.67%) incisors, results that are similar to those expressed by attributed to the type of health center analyzed, since in the last group a population was taken that was treated in secondary health centers, focused on the treatment of the pathology by specialists, where there are mainly derived cases or those that do not they can be resolved in primary care [10,12,13,19,20], Breakdown of these data in Table 3.…”

“…The inclusion criterion was all DAU with the following complete data: Age, gender, diagnosis and description of the TDI (compatible with the IADT classification criteria) and affected tooth or supporting structures. national and international authors [5,10,12,13]. This relationship is explained due to the greater exposure of this group to direct trauma by objects or falls, accentuating the severity of the damage in patients with class II dentofacial anomalies given the greater protrusion and therefore exposure of these teeth [14].…”

Prevalence of dentoalveolar trauma in the people of the urban parish San Sebastián, Cuenca (Ecuador), 2019

“…Los resultados de este estudio mostraron que no existe relación significativa entre el sexo y prevalencia de TDA, dato contradictorio al estudio de Born et al 9 que señala que si existe un fuerte vínculo entre el sexo y la incidencia de traumas dentales. En la mayoría de la literatura reportan que los hombres son los que más presentan TDA en comparación con las mujeres 4,11,[13][14][15][16][17][18] siendo diferente a lo reportado en este estudio donde se presenta más casos de TDA en mujeres. La razón de que se presenten más en las mujeres puede deberse al tema de la inclusión o incorporación a actividades que hacen los hombres 11 .…”

“…Y otra investigación que se da en Chile menciona que se presenta más en la primera y segunda década de edad. (13) La razón por la que se presenten más estudios realizados en niños, puede deberse a que es una edad recomendada por Andreasen et al 20 debido a que es el final de la dentición mixta y el periodo de mayor incidencia de TDA. De los TDA presentes en este estudio, la mayoría se presentan con un diente afectado, dato similar al estudio de Pelli et al, (8) que reporta un 76.3% de los casos, donde se afectó a un solo diente.…”

Influência do traumatismo dentário na qualidade de vida de crianças de 8 a 10 anos de idade das escolas particulares do município de Patos – PB, Brasil

“…Já Gonçalves et al 32 , Véliz et al 33 e Reisen et al 34 encontraram resultados divergentes aos deste estudo e dos demais acima citados onde o incisivo central superior direito é o elemento mais acometido. Diversos fatores contribuem para que o grupo dos dentes incisivos sejam mais acometidos por traumas, dentre eles destaca-se a localização no arco que favorece o impacto direto nestes elementos, causando traumas com mais facilidade em relação aos demais grupos de dentes 35 .…”