Strategies to Prevent Secondary Injuries
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Description: It has been shown that children that have sustained one dental injury have 4.85 times greater odd ratio for additional injury compared matched children that have not been injured. There is no reason to belief that older teenagers are not at similar risk, as well as professional athletes. Strategic prevention is therefore of outmost importance. This lecture will review the evidence base for prevention of dental injuries, with emphasis on what seems to work and what not for these groups. It is though clear that many preventive measures, like mouthguards and/or 2 faceguards, will not be of much use for many of these individuals because the injuries are more likely to occur in “backyard” play rather than in organized athletic events. Therefore, the role of education, for both lay persons as well as professionals, in prevention and emergency responses to dental injuries will be explored and some strategies suggested.
At the conclusion, participants should be able to:
- List who are at most risk for primary as well as second dental injury.
- Discuss which preventive measures for dental injury have clinical/scientific backing
- Describe the best way to educate lay persons and professionals about prevention and emergency responses to dental injuries.
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Asgeir Sigurdsson, D.D.S., M.S.
DDS from University of Iceland. Graduated from University of North Carolina (UNC) in 1992, with certificate in endodontics and MS. Full time faculty at UNC 1992-2004, was the Graduate Program Director of Endodontics 1997 to 2004. From 2004 to 2012 in a private endodontic practice in Reykjavik, Iceland and London, UK and Honorary Clinical Teacher in Endodontology, UCL Eastman Dental Institute, UK. In 2012, he became the Chairman and tenured Professor at NYU Dentistry, Department of Endodontics. Additionally, he is an adjunct Professor at UNC. Dr. Sigurdsson is past President of the International Association for Dental Traumatology and 2014 he was appointed as a Director of the American Board of Endodontics and served as the President of the Board 2019-20. He is currently on the editorial board of Dental Traumatology. Dr. Sigurdsson has been invited numerous times to lecture in 47 countries all over the world, on the topics of pain, endodontics, dental trauma and/or forensic sciences. He has written or co-written over 85 per-reviewed articles and 23 textbook chapters on same topics.
Speaker Disclosure:
I declare that I have no proprietary, financial, or other personal interest of any nature or kind in any product, service, course, and/or company, or in any firm beneficially associated therewith, that will be discussed or considered during the proposed presentation.
Asgeir Sigurdsson, D.D.S., M.S.
I declare that I have no proprietary, financial, or other personal interest of any nature or kind in any product, service, course, and/or company, or in any firm beneficially associated therewith, that will be discussed or considered during the proposed presentation.
