A Clinical Guide to Traumatic Injuries of Teeth for Dental Students

Dentist in practice whether general practitioners specialists academicians or researchers each of us has a professional responsibility to educate ourselves and the community in the prevention and treatment of traumatic injuries. In modern dentistry traumas that affect the hard tissues of the teeth are significant because of the frequency with which they occur owing to the increased craze for sports and adventure games. They are accompanied with functional emotional and aesthetic disturbances. These problems have to be treated rapidly as a great deal of success depends on early intervention in these cases.With advance knowledge in this field the availability of various modern restorative materials and the scientific proof of various treatment modalities and techniques we see more scored to tackle the traumatized teeth and restore them to an acceptable functional and aesthetic state.Dentists should and can be in the forefront for the treatment of dental trauma as it is our professional; responsibility and very rightly supports the fact “Prevention is better than cure”.