Prevalence of dental trauma in children and adolescents assisted at NEPTI at FOUFBA

• Autor(a) principal: Dantas, Vaipscia Bitencourt
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Alves, Alessandra Castro, Scavuzzi, Ana Isabel Fonseca
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Revista da ABENO (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revabeno.emnuvens.com.br/revabeno/article/view/871
• topic: Community-Institutional Relations. Education; Higher. Epidemiology. Tooth Injuries.; Relações Comunidade-Instituição. Educação Superior. Epidemiologia. Traumatismos dentários.

The inseparability between teaching, research and extension is desirable for the provision of quality dental education. This study determined the profile of patients assisted at the Extension/Research Unit in Dental Trauma at the Dental School of UFBA. The study was conducted on 86 patients of both genders, aged 0 to 14 years, presenting dentoalveolar lesions. Two individuals had already been previously treated and returned with a new trauma, adding up to 88 episodes of trauma. Data were collected from March 2016 to January 2018 and the variables evaluated were age and gender of the patient, affected teeth, type, etiology, classification and place where the trauma occurred. Among the 86 patients, 58.1% were boys and 41.9% girls, with age ranging from 1 to 14 years with mean of 5.5 (± 3.7) years. In most cases one tooth was affected, and the upper central incisors were the most affected. In primary teeth, subluxation was the most frequent trauma in supporting tissues and coronal fracture with pulp exposure in dental tissues. In permanent teeth, avulsion was the most frequent in supporting tissues and enamel and dentin fractures in dental tissues. It was possible to characterize the profile of patients treated with dental injuries in the project, enabling the dentists to know the risk population of the region, the main causes and the most frequent traumas.