Current Status and Awareness of Dental Trauma in B Region in Age of 20s

Trauma is a factor that can affect treatment, including ages, type and extent of injury, and elapsed time before post-traumatic treatment. The purpose of this study is to investigate the status of oral trauma and the level of oral trauma awareness to increase oral trauma education with 456 ordinary citizens living in Busan. The survey was conducted with the following results:

148 (33.6%) of them had a traumatic experience, and 105 (71%) of them had trauma in childhood and 93 (62.8%) had front teeth trauma which was the highest. In the recognition level according to the educational status, 35 people (47.3%) answered ‘correctly’ to the question of discrimination between milk tooth and permanent tooth (p=0.020).

The state of trauma was relatively high and the oral trauma education was significantly lower. The level of cognition differs significantly between the educated and uneducated groups, which suggests that more education and educational materials on how to cope with oral trauma and how to behave are needed.