"Injuries to primary and permanent teeth - grasp the first steps"
Day one
Theoretical Part (4 hours, including a 30-minute coffee break)
9:00-11:00
1. Examination of a patient after trauma
• essential information for proper diagnosis
• examination scheme - trauma chart
• imaging diagnostics - what can be done, and what must be done?
• additional tests - key to communication with the patient, parent, another doctor
2. Contemporary classification of injuries according to Andreasen, discussion of injuries from groups:
• fractures
• luxations
11:30-13:00
3. Proper diagnosis - the key to success:
• diagnostic tree
• "trauma triage" in complex and multi-tooth injuries
4. First aid for primary and permanent tooth injuries according to the latest IADT guidelines:
• what to treat immediately, and what to postpone?
• management of uncomplicated and complicated crown fractures, root fractures, and crown-root fractures
Lunch break 13:00-14:00
Practical Part (4 hours, including a 30-minute coffee break)
1. Reconstruction of a fractured primary incisor crown using the strip crown method
2. Management of a complicated permanent incisor fracture - partial pulpotomy using bio-ceramic cements
3. Crown reconstruction by reattaching a fractured tooth fragment (reattachment)
4. Tips & Tricks from daily practice
Day two
Theoretical Part (4 hours, including a 30-minute coffee break)
9:00-13:00
1. First aid for injuries to primary and permanent teeth according to the latest IADT guidelines c.d.
• management of luxations - concussion, subluxation, extrusion, lateral luxation, intrusion, and avulsion of a tooth (knocked out tooth)
2. Splinting of teeth:
• splinting materials - discussion of available methods
immobilization time for individual injuries
• control and removal of immobilization
3. Recommendations for patients after trauma - as a crucial point for treatment success:
• dietary and hygienic
• follow-up visits
4. Communication with parents:
• prognosis
• possible complications
• consequences of primary tooth injuries on permanent successors
Lunch Break 13:00-14:00
Practical Part (4 hours, including a 30-minute coffee break)
1. Replantation of an avulsed permanent tooth step-by-step - exercises on a model
2. Splinting of teeth using a TTS splint
3. Repositioning of a permanent tooth after lateral luxation
4. Splinting using a splint, wire, and composite
5. Removal of immobilization from teeth without damaging the enamel