dental traumatisms
- Dentistry for babies
- Pregnancy and oral health
- Breastfeeding
- Baby bottle
- Caries in milk teeth
- How to avoid caries?
- Oral hygiene
- Bacterial transmission
- Nutrition and caries
- Fluoride and sealants
- Pacifier and sucking on fingers
- Teeth eruption
- Dental traumatisms
- First visit to the paediatric dentist
- Special needs patients
- Changes in the color of teeth
- Frequently asked questions
What should I do if my child falls
on his/her face or hits his/her mouth?
of the main causes of dental attention
and real dental emergencies.
Although their causes vary,
falls are frequent when babies
are learning how to walk, because
they don't coordinate their movements yet,
as well as during the stages when
children learn how to ride a bicycle and/or
activities of greater contact increase.
- Convulsive disorders (epilepsy), deafness and blindness.
- Hyperactivity disorders.
labial frenum
– That a dentist must evaluate every traumatism in the face clinically and/or radiographically in order to discard major injuries in both soft and hard tissues of the mouth.
– That the time between the accident and the visit to the dentist must be as short as possible (two hours maximum).
– That you must transport a broken tooth or fragment in milk.
– That the roots of anterior milk teeth are very close to permanent teeth, so a trauma can affect the permanent tooth forming right below them.
– That "small / insignificant" dental fractures may cause the death of the nerve (pulp) of both milk and permanent teeth.
– That a change in the colour of the teeth is usually a sign of pulp necrosis (nerve death) and should be evaluated by a professional.
– That you must always have the telephone number of the paediatric dentist at hand, because traumatisms are unexpected emergency situations.
necrosis
- Get in touch with your paediatric dentist immediately, no matter what time it is. Time is critical for the prognosis.
- In case a tooth gets fractured or knocked out, always try to recover it and transport it to the dentist in milk. If not available, it can be transported in serum or inside the mouth
- Avulsed primary teeth (that are knocked out completely) are not put back into place to avoid the risk of damaging the permanent tooth.
- Avulsed permanent teeth (that are knocked out completely) must always be handled by the crown (white part) and put back into place immediately. The more time they stay out of the mouth, the worse the prognosis will be.
- All fractured permanent teeth must be treated to avoid long-term injuries of the nerve.
- Your paediatric dentist will tell you the different types of treatment available, according to the type of trauma your child has.