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Table 8 Cross-sectional subsample of patients: injury subtypes based on previous trauma to the permanent teeth in relation to both clinical and radiographic findings at follow-up and to the distribution of these subtypes within the combined PDL + DHT injuries

From: Traumatic dental injuries over an 8-year period at a German dental center: a retrospective overview and cross-sectional analysis

  

Status at follow-up

Endodontic treatment

  

Other findings (left) or

Types of traumatic injury

 

Lost

Nonsensitive

Previous

Indicated

Ankylosed

Discolored

requirements (right)

(PDL, DHT, PDL + DHT)

n

n

%

n

n

n

n

n

n

n

n

PDL injuries

258

          

Concussion

 

44

17.1

0

3

2

1

3

0

1

 

Subluxation (mobility)

 

49

19.0

1

9

6

9

2

2

7

2

Lateral luxation

 

94

36.4

8

34

25

6

4

14

19

 

Extrusion

 

19

7.4

3

8

5

1

1

5

3

 

Intrusion

 

17

6.6

1

7

3

3

0

2

14

1

Avulsion

 

35

13.6

14

20

11

3

6

7

8

1

   

100

27

81

52

23

16

30

52†

4†

DHT injuries

152

          

Enamel (infraction)

 

4

2.6

     

0

  

Enamel (fracture)

 

35

23.0

1

  

1

 

2

  

Enamel–dentin

 

67

44.1

 

12

9

1

 

4

2

4

Enamel–dentin–pulp

 

14

9.2

4

8

7

2

 

5

  

Crown–root

 

27

17.8

13

    

3

3

6

Root

 

5

3.3

2

    

0

2

 
   

100

  

16

   

7‡

10‡

PDL + DHT injuries

159

          
    

11

61

48

7

11

 

13§

9§

Abbreviations in this row:

    

E(I)

E(F)

ED

EDP

CR

R

Total

E(I) = Enamel (infraction)

   

Concussion

7

19

36

3

2

1

68

E(F) = Enamel (fracture)

   

Subluxation

3

3

23

3

1

0

33

ED = Enamel–dentin

   

Lateral luxation

4

7

16

4

6

3

40

EDP = Enamel–dentin–pulp

   

Extrusion

3

0

1

0

0

0

4

CR = Crown–root

   

Intrusion

0

0

5

0

1

0

6

R = Root

   

Avulsion

0

5

3

0

0

0

8

Total

569

  

Total:

17

34

84

10

10

4

159

  1. DHT  dental hard tissue, PDL  periodontal ligament
  2. †Concussion: apical osteolysis (n = 1); subluxation: pulp canal obliteration (n = 7), prosthetic treatment (n = 2); lateral luxation: pulp canal obliteration (n = 11), apical osteolysis (n = 5), inflammatory replacement resorption (n = 2); extrusion: pulp canal obliteration (n = 2), apical osteolysis (n = 1); intrusion: apical osteolysis (n = 2), inflammatory resorption (n = 2), surface resorption (n = 10), extraction (n = 1); avulsion: inflammatory resorption (n = 4), pulp canal obliteration (n = 2), surface resorption (n = 2), removal (n = 7), prosthetic treatment (n = 1)
  3. ‡Enamel–dentin: pulp canal obliteration (n = 2), conservative treatment (n = 3), apicoectomy (n = 1); crown–root: surface resorption (n = 2), apical osteolysis (n = 1), extraction (n = 5), prosthetic treatment (n = 1); root: pulp canal obliteration (n = 2). §Apical osteolysis (n = 4), inflammatory (n = 2) or surface (n = 3) resorption, pulp canal obliteration (n = 4), apicoectomy (n = 1), extraction (n = 7), prosthetic treatment (n = 1)