Fractured and avulsed permanent incisors in Finnish children: A retrospective study
- 1 January 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Acta Odontologica Scandinavica
- Vol. 37 (1) , 47-50
- https://doi.org/10.3109/00016357909004684
Abstract
The frequency of traumatic injuries to permanent incisors was studied in a sample of 1614 children from the city of Lahti in Southern Finland. The children, 801 girls and 813 boys, ranged in age from 6 to 16 years. Injuries to hard dental tissues and exarticulations of teeth were recorded. The prevalence of injuries was 19.8%-14.6% in girls and 25.0% in boys. A rapid growth in the prevalence rates was found at the ages of 9–11 years, at which the estimated mean annual incidence was about 5% in girls and 7% in boys. In 78.4% of the children with injured incisors, one tooth only was injured. The teeth most commonly injured were the upper central incisors, 81.7%; and the most frequent type of injury was an uncomplicated crown fracture, 90.5%.Keywords
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