Dental trauma is a very big topic and it covers quite a lot of things. The trauma that you can sustain to your teeth can be very simple or it can be very complicated.
For example, you could have a small chip on your front tooth, that’s considered a traumatic injury to your tooth. It can be just a small little chip and might not even cause pain, but it can still be considered to be trauma. On the other spectrum, you could have trauma to your teeth as a result of a very serious accident, for example, road traffic accident. You could be involved in a vehicle accident where you’re not just having trauma to your teeth, you are also having trauma to your jaw, your face. Your teeth get really badly smashed. That’s very severe trauma. And then you’ve got trauma that’s kind of in-between, where the injury is not so severe but it’s still causing you pain, you still need to get it fixed.
So it’s really a big topic. How it affects you really depends on how extensive the trauma is and the damage that has been sustained.
