Managing the Challenge of Sports Related Dental Injuries in Atheletic Children- A Case Report

Sports related injuries are the most common cause of dental trauma in children. The most commonly injured teeth are the maxillary central incisors, followed by the maxillary lateral incisors and the mandibular incisors. Presented here is a case of a 13 year hockey player who met with a sports injury and reported to the dental clinic with the chief complaint of broken upper left central incisor. The treatment was carried out by doing Root canal treatment of the broken tooth followed by the crowning of the fractured tooth with porcelain fused to metal. The goal of present paper was to help develop dental trauma management awareness in sportspersons which can help deal with everyday teeth trauma in most appropriate way.