Dento-alveaolar Trauma (NW161007Q)

Consideration will be given to the paediatric patient, the adult patient and the long term consequences.

This is a DCT1 study day that has been opened to GDPs.

Registration is from 8.30 am

Recommended to all

• To inform dentists upon the optimal management strategies of dental trauma and its consequences

• Enable a primary care dentist and a junior secondary care dentist to assess and appropriately manage patients presenting with maxillofacial trauma

• To review management protocols for paediatric and adult trauma
• To consider the role of the maxillofacial team in more significant facial trauma
• To better understand the long term consequences of trauma
• Overview of maxillofacial trauma and its causes
• Presentation in primary care and secondary care
• Assessment of patient suspected of maxillofacial trauma
• Referral pathway for patients with maxillofacial trauma
• Secondary care management and treatment of maxillofacial trauma
• Follow up and long term complications of maxillofacial trauma

• Understand the differing injuries that may prsent
• Understand the prinicples of management
• Recognising the importlance of follow up and the possible complications
• Knowing when and who to refer to
• To have greater confidence when managing trauma in both primary and secondary care settings.
• Primary and secondary care dentist is able to recognise a patient that may have maxillofacial injury from trauma
• Primary care dentist is able to appropriately refer to secondary care a patient that may have maxillofacial injury from trauma
• Secondary care dentist is able to work up and arrange for a patient to undergo treatment for maxillofacial trauma
• Awareness of complications following maxillofacial trauma