The authors of this book offer expert guidance on diagnosing and treating different forms of dental trauma. Emphasis is placed on the comprehensive care of patients and their damaged teeth following trauma involving the dentition and associated soft tissues. Especially welcome is a chapter on the part dentists may play in identifying cases of child abuse.

124 pp; 98 illus;

ISBN: 1-85097-082-3; 1850970823;
978-1-85097-087-3; 9781850970873;

Contents
1. History, Examination, Diagnosis and Treatment Planning
2. Prevention
3. Intraoral Soft Tissue Injuries
4. Primary Dentition Injuries
5. Permanent Dentition: Uncomplicated Crown and Crown-root Fractures: Infractions, Enamel Fractures, Enamel-dentine Fractures, Enamel-dentine-cementum Fractures
6. Permanent Dentition: Complicated Crown Fractures: Enamel-dentine-pulp Fractures, Enamel-dentine-pulp-root Fractures
7. Permanent Dentition: Root Fractures and Splinting
8. Permanent Dentition: Concussion, Subluxation, Lateral Luxation and External Resorption
9. Permanent Dentition: Intrusive and Extrusive Luxations
10. Permanent Dentition: Avulsion and Reimplantation
11. Permanent Dentition: Dento-alveolar Fractures
12. Child Physical Abuse

Foreword
Dental trauma is invariably distressing and painful for the patient, and a challenge for the clinicians to manage in such a way as to give the best possible opportunity of a good, aesthetically pleasing medium to long term clinical outcome. Managing Dental Trauma in Practice, Volume 24 in the highly rated Quintessentials series, is a most welcome addition to the current dental literature. In common with all other volumes in the series, this book has been planned and prepared as a succinct, easy-to-read, well-illustrated text, convenient for practitioners and students wishing to update their knowledge and understanding in a specific aspect of clinical practice. The extensive guidance on diagnosing and treating different forms of dental trauma is both up to date and of immediate practical relevance. In addition, this book is not just about managing traumatised teeth, great emphasis is placed on the comprehensive care of patients and their damaged teeth, following trauma involving the dentition and associated soft tissues. The inclusion of a chapter on the part dentists may play in identifying cases of child abuse is especially welcome.

The management of dental trauma will continue to be an integral element of everyday clinical practice, fuelled, amongst other factors, by increasing violence in society and individuals of an ever-increasing age range risking dental trauma in sporting and other physical activities. As a consequence, practitioners will need to continue to be abreast of current thinking in the management of dental trauma. This book is targeted to meet this need.

Nairn Wilson
Editor-in-Chief