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STUDY TO KNOW DENTAL INJURIES AND TRAUMA IN SCHOOL CHILDREN

1Dr.Mavra Naeem, 2Dr.Ayesha Islam, 3Dr.Zaheer Iqbal, 4Tamseela Mumtaz

Objective: This study analyzed the largest cause for the mortality of teeth in school going children. Study Design: Descriptive / cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: This study was conducted at the private school of Karachi from March 2017 to April 2017. Materials and Methods: Children aged between 7 to 12 years were selected on the basis of nonrandomized sampling. Questions were asked about accidental injuries like collision, bicycle injuries, falls, sports injuries, injured teeth, fights, fracture and non-accidental injury. A descriptive analysis was done; a mean ± standard deviation (SD) was taken out for continuous variables (age) and categorical variables (distribution of traumatic injuries according to cause, distribution of age-related injuries in dentition, distribution of injuries related to number of injured teeth and distribution of traumatic injuries according to type) Results: Results have shown that the children aged between 8 to 9 years old are most effective (58%). Bicycle falling (64%) appeared as the most common reason of dental trauma. End of the study we found that most of the participants have one tooth involve (64%) while those participants have class II trauma; extensive crown fracture involving most of dentine but not the dental pulp (x2 = 42.43, df= 16, p<0.001). Conclusion: On conclusion of this study, bicycle injury appeared as the most common cause of dental trauma in school going children which involves dentine but not the pulp.

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