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Anterior Dental Injuries in 8–12-year-old Schoolchildren of Yamunanagar, Northern India: A Districtwide Oral Health Survey

BACKGROUND/AIM: Due to its frequency, early occurrence, and severe adverse effects, if untreated, traumatic dental injury (TDI) is a public dental health issue. The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of dental injuries caused by trauma in the anterior teeth among schoolchildren...

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Autores principales: Singh, Bakhshish, Pandit, Inder K, Gugnani, Neeraj, Bhatia, Taranjeet K, Gupta, Monika, Kumar, Vaibhav
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9973110/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36865725
http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10005-2424
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author Singh, Bakhshish
Pandit, Inder K
Gugnani, Neeraj
Bhatia, Taranjeet K
Gupta, Monika
Kumar, Vaibhav
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Pandit, Inder K
Gugnani, Neeraj
Bhatia, Taranjeet K
Gupta, Monika
Kumar, Vaibhav
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description BACKGROUND/AIM: Due to its frequency, early occurrence, and severe adverse effects, if untreated, traumatic dental injury (TDI) is a public dental health issue. The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of dental injuries caused by trauma in the anterior teeth among schoolchildren of Yamunanagar (Haryana), Northern India. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A sample of 11,897 schoolchildren in the age-group of 8–12 years from 36 urban/rural schools was examined for TDI using Ellis and Davey classification. Children with TDI were interviewed using a structured questionnaire and presented with validated motivational videos to educate them about dental trauma, the sequelae of unmet treatment, and to motivate them to undergo treatment. The subjects with trauma were reevaluated after 6 months to assess the percentage of subjects who have undergone treatment after motivation. RESULT AND CONCLUSION: The overall prevalence of children afflicted with TDI was 6.33%. Statistically, a significant difference of p ≤ 0.001 was noted between the percentage of boys (7.29%) and girls (4.8%) experiencing TDI. Maxillary incisors (94.3%) were the most commonly injured teeth. Falls in the playground (37.70%) were the major cause; on reevaluation, only 9.26% of the study population got their traumatized tooth treated. TDI is an existing dental problem. Motivating children at schools was found to be ineffective. There is a need to educate the parents and teachers to take appropriate preventive measures. HOW TO CITE THIS ARTICLE: Singh B, Pandit IK, Gugnani N, et al. Anterior Dental Injuries in 8–12-year-old Schoolchildren of Yamunanagar, Northern India: A Districtwide Oral Health Survey. Int J Clin Pediatr Dent 2022;15(5):584-590.
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spelling pubmed-99731102023-03-01 Anterior Dental Injuries in 8–12-year-old Schoolchildren of Yamunanagar, Northern India: A Districtwide Oral Health Survey Singh, Bakhshish Pandit, Inder K Gugnani, Neeraj Bhatia, Taranjeet K Gupta, Monika Kumar, Vaibhav Int J Clin Pediatr Dent Original Research BACKGROUND/AIM: Due to its frequency, early occurrence, and severe adverse effects, if untreated, traumatic dental injury (TDI) is a public dental health issue. The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of dental injuries caused by trauma in the anterior teeth among schoolchildren of Yamunanagar (Haryana), Northern India. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A sample of 11,897 schoolchildren in the age-group of 8–12 years from 36 urban/rural schools was examined for TDI using Ellis and Davey classification. Children with TDI were interviewed using a structured questionnaire and presented with validated motivational videos to educate them about dental trauma, the sequelae of unmet treatment, and to motivate them to undergo treatment. The subjects with trauma were reevaluated after 6 months to assess the percentage of subjects who have undergone treatment after motivation. RESULT AND CONCLUSION: The overall prevalence of children afflicted with TDI was 6.33%. Statistically, a significant difference of p ≤ 0.001 was noted between the percentage of boys (7.29%) and girls (4.8%) experiencing TDI. Maxillary incisors (94.3%) were the most commonly injured teeth. Falls in the playground (37.70%) were the major cause; on reevaluation, only 9.26% of the study population got their traumatized tooth treated. TDI is an existing dental problem. Motivating children at schools was found to be ineffective. There is a need to educate the parents and teachers to take appropriate preventive measures. HOW TO CITE THIS ARTICLE: Singh B, Pandit IK, Gugnani N, et al. Anterior Dental Injuries in 8–12-year-old Schoolchildren of Yamunanagar, Northern India: A Districtwide Oral Health Survey. Int J Clin Pediatr Dent 2022;15(5):584-590. Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9973110/ /pubmed/36865725 http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10005-2424 Text en Copyright © 2022; The Author(s). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/© The Author(s). 2022 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and non-commercial reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Singh, Bakhshish
Pandit, Inder K
Gugnani, Neeraj
Bhatia, Taranjeet K
Gupta, Monika
Kumar, Vaibhav
Anterior Dental Injuries in 8–12-year-old Schoolchildren of Yamunanagar, Northern India: A Districtwide Oral Health Survey
title Anterior Dental Injuries in 8–12-year-old Schoolchildren of Yamunanagar, Northern India: A Districtwide Oral Health Survey
title_full Anterior Dental Injuries in 8–12-year-old Schoolchildren of Yamunanagar, Northern India: A Districtwide Oral Health Survey
title_fullStr Anterior Dental Injuries in 8–12-year-old Schoolchildren of Yamunanagar, Northern India: A Districtwide Oral Health Survey
title_full_unstemmed Anterior Dental Injuries in 8–12-year-old Schoolchildren of Yamunanagar, Northern India: A Districtwide Oral Health Survey
title_short Anterior Dental Injuries in 8–12-year-old Schoolchildren of Yamunanagar, Northern India: A Districtwide Oral Health Survey
title_sort anterior dental injuries in 8–12-year-old schoolchildren of yamunanagar, northern india: a districtwide oral health survey
topic Original Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9973110/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36865725
http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10005-2424
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