Dental Traumatology

Articles

• Professional karate-do and mixed martial arts fighters present with a high prevalence of temporomandibular disorders

  29 octobre 2015, par Daniel Bonotto, Eli Luis Namba, Danielle Medeiros Veiga, Fernanda Wandembruck, Felipe Mussi, Paulo Afonso Cunali, Edvaldo Antonio Ribeiro Rosa, Luciana Reis Azevedo-Alanis
  Background/aim Facial trauma in sports has been associated with temporomandibular disorders. Because of the intensity and duration of training needed for elite-level competitions, high-performance athletes can have two to five times more traumatic injuries than recreational athletes. This study (...)

• Influence of abutment tooth position and adhesive point dimension on the rigidity of a dental trauma wire-composite splint

  29 octobre 2015, par Yuqing Zhu, Hui Chen, Lian Cen, Jun Wang
  Background/Aim The influence of abutment tooth position and adhesive point dimension on rigidity of wire-composite splints, used in dental trauma, was evaluated in vitro. Materials and Methods A commercial artificial resin model was used. The central incisors served as injured teeth with (...)

• Influence of wearing a scuba diving mouthpiece on the stomatognathic system – considerations for mouthpiece design

  21 octobre 2015, par Toshiaki Hirose, Takahiro Ono, Yoshinobu Maeda
  Although diver's mouth syndrome (DMS) has long been recognized by scuba divers, little attention has been paid to the influence of wearing a scuba diving mouthpiece on the stomatognathic system. In this review, DMS-related stomatognathic events (DMS-SE) while wearing a mouthpiece, the (...)

• Traumatic dental injuries among 12- and 15-year-old adolescents in Georgia : results of the pathfinder study

  20 octobre 2015, par Leon Bilder, Vladimer Margvelashvili, Harold Sgan-Cohen, Manana Kalandadze, Liran Levin, Rusudan Ivanishvili, Eli E. Machtei
  Background Traumatic dental injuries (TDI) are a widespread pathology with serious dental public health concerns. Objectives The aim of this pathfinder study was to collect initial epidemiological data on oral health in Republic of Georgia. As part of this study, the prevalence and severity of (...)

• Alveolar process fractures in the permanent dentition. Part 2. The risk of healing complications in teeth involved in an alveolar process fracture

  14 octobre 2015, par Eva Lauridsen, Thomas Gerds, Jens Ove Andreasen
  Aim To analyze the risk of pulp canal obliteration (PCO), pulp necrosis (PN), repair-related resorption (RRR), infection-related resorption (IRR), ankylosis-related resorption (ARR), marginal bone loss (MBL), and tooth loss (TL) for teeth involved in an alveolar process fracture and to identify (...)