Background:

among all the illnesses affecting the buccal complex we can find the dental traumas, they are alterations caused by extrinsic and intrinsic factors that make difficult the normal functioning of it. Objective: to evaluate the behavior of the traumatism in the anterior sector in patient from eight to 18 years of age.

Methods:

a descriptive study of series of cases was carried out in 15 patients assisted in the service of the Gibara dentistry clinic from January of the 2015 until January of the 2016. Data was processed in Excel, and percentage was calculated. To a better understanding, the information was shown in charts.

Results:

the most affected age group was the one from eight to 11 years of age, with a discreet prevalence of the masculine sex. In the behavior of the dental anterior traumatism according to the severity of the lesion the in-fracture of the enamel prevailed with nine patients.

Conclusions:

the most affected tooth was the superior central incisive prevailing the in-fracture of the enamel according to the severity of the lesion.

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