Association of Time of Trauma and Visit to The Dental Clinic

Abstract

Dental trauma is injury to the mouth, including teeth, lips, epoxies, lingo, and jawbones. Soft towel injuries to the mouth and dental trauma are generally veritably painful and should admit prompt treatment. It's a single centered retrospective study. Data was collected from the case record system used in private dental institutions and following parameters similar as gender, age of the children with post traumatic history. Case details were analyzed between June 2020 to January 2021 out of which 287 cases who fulfilled the addition and rejection criteria were included in the study. The data obtained was statistically analyzed using SPSS software. In this study, it is observed that time taken by maximum patients was more than 2 months and male children are prone to traumatic injury. Awareness on earlier dental visits with respect to dental trauma and complication of time delay should be improved among general society.