This 2013 MDDS Articulator article, “Fall Sports: Handling Dental Trauma”, provides statistics of and treatment for dental injuries to school-aged children in sports.

From the article: “A 12-year review of the literature reports that 25% of all school children experience dental trauma and 33% of adults have experienced trauma to the permanent dentition, with the majority of injuries occurring before age 19.”

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