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LEYVA INFANTE, Maite et al. Dental trauma. ccm [online]. 2018, vol.22, n.1, pp. 66-78. ISSN 1560-4381.

Introduction:  dental traumatisms appear in teeth, bones, and other support tissues, as a result of physical impact. They must be always treated like stomatologic emergencies. Objective: to characterize dental trauma in students from William Aguilera elementary school. San Andrés, Holguín, 2016. Methods: a cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out with a universe of 391 students, of the elementary school William Aguilera, San Andres, Holguin, 2016. From 6 to 11 years old, forty-six students showed some dental trauma. Oral examination and medical search was performed. Data collecting was developed by the authors. The group of variables were studied and processed by percentage analysis. The results were showed in tables. Results: dentals traumas were frequent on ages 6 to 7, at 39.13%. Males prevailed with 69.57%. The most common traumatic lesion was the non-complicated crown fracture, with 54.34%. A 23.80 showed dental discromia. The 45.65 % were not treated after trauma. Conclusions: dental trauma was higher in males. Non-complicated crown fracture was prevalent. Most of patients with dental trauma were not under treatment after lesion, and the most detected not treated clinic sing, was discromia.

Palavras-chave : dental trauma; stomatological emergencies; non-complicated crown fracture.

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