Częstość występowania urazów zębów wśród dzieci zgłaszających się do Zakładu Stomatologii Wieku Rozwojowego Uniwersytetu Medycznego w Łodzi

Bartłomiej Burczyński¹, Aleksandra Przybylska¹, Beata Orlińska¹, *Patrycja Proc², Joanna Szczepańska²

Summary
Introduction. Tooth injuries are significant problem in pediatric dentistry, they are second dental need after caries.
Aim. Aim of the study was to evaluate the incidence of individual types of teeth injuries in growing up patients presenting to the Department of Pediatric Dentistry at the Medical University in Lodz.
Material and methods. Based on the analysis of 1500 patients’ charts between 2012 and 2013 years the following factors were considered: patient’s gender and age, tooth number and Ellis class of injury, the treatment.
Results. The prevalence of patients with dental trauma was 3.40%. In permanent dentition, most commonly, i.e. in 23.80% of cases the fracture within enamel and dentin area were noted. Among the Ellis class II injuries, a single tooth injury was reported in 13.33% of cases, injury of two teeth in 53.33% cases, and 34.33% of cases involved injuries to more than two teeth. As regards deciduous teeth, as many as 68.57% of cases involved upper medial incisors. Patients admitting to hospital within one week following the injury accounted for 54.90% of all patients after trauma. Boys’ injuries constituted 62.75% cases. Average age of patients was 9.24 ± 5.31 years, and 2-year-olds constituted 9.80%. Injuries in children under 6 years of age accounted for 29.41% of all injuries, whereas 70.59% pertained to those between 7 and 18 years old.
Conclusions. School age boys are most commonly affected by both upper central incisors injury (Ellis class II).

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