prevalence and risk factors of dental trauma in pediatrics and adolescents: a retrospective study in ilam, iran

Objectives: this study aimed to determine the prevalence of dental trauma (dt) in pediatrics and adolescentsin ilam.methods: this retrospective study was conducted in ilam (iran) on a group of pediatric and adolescent patientswith dt between 2017 and 2021. the researchers reviewed patient records from hospital-based specialty clinicsproviding dt treatment. using a predefined checklist, they extracted the relevant data from the patients’medical files.results: in this study, 246 pediatrics and adolescents were examined, including 144 (58.5%) boys and 102(41.5%) girls. regarding age distribution, 104 (42.3%) patients were in the pediatric age group (mean age:7.1±3.2 years) and 142 (57.7%) were adolescents (14.8±5.1 years). a significant relationship was found betweenplace of occurrence with sex (or=0.77; 95% ci=0.64-0.93; p=0.008) and age group (or=0.73; 95% ci=0.6-0.89; p=0.002). additionally, the type of trauma showed a significant association with sex (or=1.24; 95%ci=1.08-1.43; p=0.002), while the treatment provided was significantly associated with school type (or=0.79;95% ci=0.65-0.96; p=0.02). in addition, there was no significant relationship between the demographicvariables and dental injury-related factors (p>0.05).conclusion: the present study found a higher prevalence of dt in boys than in girls. however, this trendreversed in the adolescent age group. in addition, public schools had a higher rate of dt, which influenced thetypes of treatments provided.