Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon in Erode
Contact sports such as base ball, boxing, basket ball, rugby, ice hockey, skating the person playing is constantly making contact with other people or objects. All these sports pose a risk of dental injury. Function of a mouth guard is to minimize the risk of oral injury. It cover all the teeth of the jaw and sit comfortably in the wearers mouth, absorb high impact forces and transmit very little of it to the wearer.
A fractured tooth is a crack appears in your tooth occurs mainly of trauma (sports injuries, accidents) Crack can be small and harmless or cause your tooth to break or split. Management depends on tooth damaged, this includes tooth contouring, veneers, crowns, RCT and extraction.
Avulsed tooth means a tooth that has fallen out from its position in the socket. Initial management of tooth avulsion at time of injury (telephone advice) Pick up tooth by crown (white, flat end) Do not touch the pointed end of the tooth Rinse in milk / saline or cold running water briefly Put it back into socket ask patient to bite on rolled up handkerchief. Attend local dentist or emergency department immediately.
Maxillofacial trauma trauma to the face associated with sports involve soft tissue injuries such as burns, lacerations and bruises, or hard tissue injuries such as fractures of the tooth, facial bones fracture such as nasal fractures, orbital fracture.
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