Current Guidlines on Treatment of an Avulsed Permanent Tooth.

 Definition of avulsion = total displacement of a tooth out of the socket where the root is not fractured and the tooth is a permanent tooth.

Most common in 7 - 9 year olds.

 Management.

• Do not touch the root only handle by the crown
• If clean reimplant immediately.
• If dirty rinse ice cold milk or saline then reimplant.
• If can not implant then store in the child’s mouth between the cheek and the teeth or transport in milk.
• Get to a dentist ASAP.

Try and reimplant within 5 minutes.

Never implant a baby tooth.