Traumatic dental injuries among primary school children in Alexandria

ABSTRACT

Children accidents are everyone's responsibility. Accident prevention is everyone's job. Traumatic dental injuries were studied among 6061 primary school children. The males had higher rate of accidents than girls and the accidents were higher among children with illeterate mother or only read and write and not working. Most of injuries occured at street followed by home. Single fractures, maxillary central incisors and enamel dentine type of fracture were the most frequent type of fractures