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Sometimes
your child may have been in an incident where they got hit
in the face with a base ball bat or or any hard object,
resulting in damage to the front teeth. This is a typical
dental emergency which requires immediate dental care.
When injury
expose the tooth pulp, it cab be serious since the potential
for infection is high. The pulp is the innermost chamber of
the tooth and contains nerves and blood vessels.
Temporary
treatment of injured tooth pulp includes the use of a
sedative dressing to cut down sensitivity in the area. If a
pulpectomy (removal of the pulp material) is necessary, it
will be followed by root-canal therapy, and the use of a
crown or a cap if the tooth can be preserved.
Until you can
get to a dentist following an injury, keep the mouth as
clean as possible by rinsing it with solution of salt water.
If there are loose teeth, no food should be chewed until the
teeth are stablized in the jaw. |
