A tooth contusion is the least severe trauma, characterized by a hemorrhage into the pulp due to rupture of the vascular-neural bundle entering the opening of the apex of the tooth.
The elderly age of the affected persons imposes their own peculiarities on the mechanism of origin, clinical forms and clinical manifestations, the course and treatment of spine trauma.
Injury of the spine in children is relatively rare. The main type of violence is flexion as a result of falling from a height or falling of gravity from above to the shoulders of the victim. The most common clinical form of spinal injury is compression wedge fractures of vertebral bodies.
Damage to the thoracic intervertebral discs is less common than damage to the lumbar and cervical discs. According to our observations, they are more common in young people, especially among athletes, but also in older people.
Compression lobular fractures of the lumbar vertebral bodies are an independent and more severe clinical form of fractures of the lumbar vertebral bodies.
Compression wedge-shaped uncomplicated fractures of the bodies of the lumbar and thoracic vertebrae are perhaps the most common type of spine injury and are localized in the upper lumbar and lower thoracic spine.
Damage to the thoracic and lumbar vertebrae is considered in one article, because in the mechanism of their occurrence, clinical course and treatment issues, there is much in common. Especially this applies to the lumbar and lower thoracic vertebrae, where damage often occurs.
