Managing dento-alveolar trauma

Learning objectives

• Explore patient assessment and record keeping for patients presenting with acute traumatic injuries
• Understand the management of fractures of teeth, in particular root fractures
• Understand the management and consequences of complex injuries involving damage to PDL, cementum and bone in luxation, intrusion and avulsion injuries
• Explore the options for managing teeth undergoing inflammatory and replacement resorption as a sequalae of dental trauma
• Understand how to make decisions which will improve outcomes and prognosis for patients and ensure they are in keeping with current guidelines.

Development outcome

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Meet the speaker

Mital completed his specialist training in 2013 and was awarded a Fellowship in Dental Surgery by the Royal College of Surgeons of England in the speciality of Restorative Dentistry. He also gained registration onto the General Dental Council’s specialist lists in Restorative Dentistry, Prosthodontics, Periodontology and Endodontics. Prior to taking up his consultant post, he undertook a two month period of further elective study focusing on implant dentistry at the University of Bern and University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Mital currently spends most of his week working as a Consultant and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in Restorative Dentistry at The Royal London Dental Hospital and the Queen Mary University of London. Most of his time here is spent rehabilitating patients with traumatic dental injuries resulting in damage or loss of teeth. He is also extensively involved in delivering post graduate education to dentists training to become future specialists and consultants.