Background/aim: Specialist paediatric dentists are integral to dental trauma care pathways. General dentists rely on specialist input, more so in complex cases. Little is known about specialists' role in these pathways or the perceived barriers they face.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To assess paediatric emergency department (PED) health professionals' confidence, experience and awareness in managing traumatic dental injuries (TDIs).
Design: A cross-sectional online survey.
Setting: PED at Alder Hey Children's Hospital and Birmingham Children's Hospital.
Background: Dental attendances to paediatric emergency departments (PEDs) represent suboptimal use of resources of an unknown scale.
Aim: To evaluate dental attendances at two PEDs in the UK and compare traumatic dental injury (TDI) and non-traumatic dental conditions (NTDCs).
Design: Retrospective data were collected for a 12-month period including demographics, attendance pattern, assessment, and management.