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You Can Still Save That Tooth If You Act Fast
There are several types of dental injuries. Children often break teeth
when playing, they can trip over a toy with accidental tooth loss
as the result. Teeth can be knocked out completely. This is often
the case with serious accidents or sports injuries. Tooth bone loss
can point to various physical conditions or can be the result of an
accident.
Risk Factors for Dental Injuries
Losing or breaking a tooth is more common than you might think. Especially
people who practice contact sports are prone to experiencing accidental
tooth loss, or tooth enamel loss.
Teeth break when they receive a blow. They can be broken, loosened
or knocked out completely. At one point or another everybody has heard
tooth loss stories. Immediate treatment gives the best possible chance
of saving the tooth, and can make expensive tooth replacement surgery
unnecessary.
What You Should Do in the Event of Dental Injury
After incurring a possible dental injury you should check your mouth
in a mirror, to see what, if any, damage has been done. Try to locate
fragments of teeth or missing teeth in your vicinity. Should you find
a tooth or fragments, make sure to only ever touch and handle the
top of the tooth, the crown. Do not wash the tooth or fragment, unless
it is visibly dirty. Do not rub the tooth in any case and leave bit
of tissue attached to the tooth. This may help prevent tooth enamel
loss. Should you be able to do so, it is best to put the tooth or
fragment under your tongue and keep it there till you get to your
dentist. If this is not possible, keeping the tooth in a cup of milk
is the best option.
Ideally a knocked out tooth or a tooth fragment should be implanted
in its original spot within 30 minutes after being knocked out.
Dealing with the injury this quickly will help the tooth to settle
back into its place again.
Hopefully less and less people will experience premature tooth
loss now that it is more common to wear mouth protection during
sports and activities. Even thought a tooth might possibly be repaired
or replaced, it can be a very painful ordeal.
Types of Dental Injuries
There are several different types of dental injuries such as loosened
teeth, due to damaged or loose gums, fractured teeth (fragmented of
the tooth are broken or have splintered) and teeth can be left displaced
and dislocated after a severe blow to the jaw. All of these injuries require a cosmetic dentist and professional medical care to avoid tooth bone loss.
Prevention of Dental Injuries
You can take precautions to avoid losing or injuring teeth. Wearing
a mouth guard when participating in activities such as sports that
may possibly be harmful can help reduce the risk of tooth bone loss
significantly. You can also choose to wear protective dental braces,
supplied by sports equipment shops or dentist. Another threat to your
priceless teeth is eating hard candy or popcorn kernels and of course
opening bottles or cutting tape with your teeth can cause premature
tooth loss too.
Should you accidentally become one of those people who make up
the list of injuries in tooth loss statistics, it’s good to
know what you should and should not do when you damage or lose a
tooth.
