Dislocation of a tooth is often accompanied by damage to the alveolar walls. In children, dislocation of one or more front teeth is most often observed.
A tooth contusion is the least severe injury, characterized by bleeding into the pulp due to a rupture of the vascular-nerve bundle entering the opening of the apex of the tooth.
The advanced age of the victims imposes its own characteristics on the mechanism of occurrence, clinical forms and clinical manifestations, course and treatment of spinal trauma.
Spinal trauma in children is relatively rare. The main type of violence is bending as a result of falling from a height or falling of something heavy on the shoulders of the victim. A more common clinical form of spinal trauma is compression wedge fractures of the vertebral bodies.
Subluxations of the lumbar vertebrae are rare. Clinically, they often occur under the guise of "bruises" of the spine or "stretching" of its ligamentous apparatus.
Damage to the thoracic intervertebral discs is less common than damage to the lumbar and cervical discs. In our observations, they are more common in young people, especially athletes, but they can also occur in older people.
Damage to the lumbar and thoracic intervertebral discs is much more common than is commonly thought. It occurs as a result of indirect exposure to violence.
Compression comminuted fractures of the lumbar vertebral bodies are an independent and more severe clinical form of fractures of the lumbar vertebral bodies.
Uncomplicated compression wedge fractures of the lumbar and thoracic vertebrae are perhaps the most common type of spinal injury and are localized in the upper lumbar and lower thoracic spine.
Injuries to the thoracic and lumbar vertebrae are considered in one article, because the mechanism of their occurrence, clinical course and treatment issues have much in common. This is especially true for the lumbar and lower thoracic vertebrae, where injuries most often occur.
