Oral trauma and dental emergency management recommendations of first-aid textbooks and manuals.

Full Abstract

The recommendations of oral trauma and dental emergencies management of nine first-aid textbooks and manuals from the last two decades were evaluated. Only one book includes all the relevant topics:
dental anatomy, management of tooth luxations and avulsion, tooth fracture, mandible dislocation, jaw fracture, intraoral bleeding and dental pain. Two books recommend self-replantation of an avulsed tooth, but four books detail the storage media and evaluate the importance of a quick referral to a dental surgery. In three first-aid books, the only mention of oral trauma is the hazard of choking from tooth fragments, and in one other book, only mandible dislocation is mentioned as oral trauma. The insufficient information of oral trauma management in these first-aid texts partly explains the previous reports of poor and inadequate knowledge in that topic among medics, teachers and the general public.

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Author information

Author/s: Zadik, Yehuda (Y);

Affiliation: Central Dental Clinic, IDF Medical Corps, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel. yzadik(-atsign-)gmail.com

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Evaluation Studies; Journal Article

Journal: Dental traumatology : official publication of International Association for Dental Traumatology (Dent Traumatol), published in Denmark. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2007-Oct; vol 23 (issue 5) : pp 304-6

Dates: Created 2007/09/06; Completed 2007/11/06; Revised 2007/11/15;

PMID: 17803488, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

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MeSH headings (categories)

This article was linked to the MESH Headings shown below.

Emergency Treatment
First Aid
Humans
Jaw Fractures - therapy

Manuals as Topic
Temporomandibular Joint - injuries
Textbooks as Topic
Tooth Injuries - therapy

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