Oral injuries can be terrible. The rich blood supply of the mouth, lips and tongue may seem to bleed a lot. Young children are always children with oral injuries. Because they have just learned to walk. I like exploring very much and often fall down.

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Types of oral injuries

How to evaluate oral injury

What is oral soft tissue injury?

When do you see a doctor?

How to deal with tooth damage?

Prevention is the best medicine.

Types of oral injuries

Oral injury can be divided into trauma and scratch in oral cavity or inside oral cavity, tooth injury and oral burn. The decision to receive medical care can be terrible. Seeing your child’s mouth bleeding and screaming usually makes people nervous. The child is very upset. This often makes parents uneasy. If you can calm yourself, understand the situation and evaluate the situation, you can reduce a lot of sadness.

Children can quickly warm their mouth with the inserted mobile phone charging cable. This injury can occur within a few seconds and can cause considerable damage. Please do not make phone calls where children can reach. This electrical injury should be evaluated immediately. Chemical substances or hot food can also cause mouth burns.

How to evaluate oral injury

-Promise me that you will calm the children down and help them.

-Confirm that there are no other bleeding parts outside the mouth such as head and neck

-Check the roof, gums, throat, teeth and other oral cavity.

-If your tooth is injured, shake it slightly to see how loose it is. Sometimes a little downward pressure can be applied to re insert the socket.

-Make sure they breathe normally through their nose and mouth

-Gently press the bleeding part with a clean cloth or bandage; if it is in the lips, press the outside of the lips on the bones or teeth to apply pressure to help stop bleeding

-Sticking ice cubes or sucking ice cubes on ice cubes or popsicles can help stop bleeding

-External damage of lips, wash with warm water and soap if necessary

-Tongue injuries usually look bad, but even relatively large wounds heal themselves quickly.

Oral infections are uncommon.

What is oral soft tissue injury?

Lip injury is obvious. Sometimes the gums will be cut or abraded. The condition is bad enough, but it is often slight, which will affect the teeth. They have a skin bridge called rope under the middle line of the upper lip, which can be cut, but this is also secondary. They also have one under their tongue. In the past, if it was thought that the forward movement of the tongue would hinder the baby’s feeding, it was cut off. If so, we hardly do it today.

When do you see a doctor?

-If you can’t apply enough pressure or pressure to the bleeding area, but you still bleed after 10 minutes, go to the emergency room.

Center or emergency room

-This may also need to be evaluated if there are significant cuts greater than 1/4 inch. Especially if the incision is outside the mouth

-Wounds inside the mouth, including the lips, look large, but are usually easily and quickly healed.

-If your child seems to be suffering, this will be another reason for the examination.

-Any kind of stab wound, including animal bite, must be checked.

-Dentists should evaluate teeth that are severely dislocated, displaced, bifurcated, or broken. Go to the emergency room when the office is closed

-If there is debris or dirt in the wound, the jaw can also be scratched when the bone is suspected to be injured

Look at them and check again

-If you feel uncomfortable about this situation and want comfort, let him check it anyway.

-Oral infection is uncommon

-How should I deal with tooth damage?

-Loose teeth bleed a little and usually tighten themselves.

-Teeth requiring assessment of moving position

-Defective teeth are usually painless and can be seen by the office dentist.

-The pain of a fractured tooth may affect the nerve root, and a root canal may be needed to save it, but it is not urgent. If you want to

Teeth, nerves and dimensions appear to be exposed at the same time, indicating more serious damage.

-The permanent value that has been cut off is an emergency and needs to be replanted within two hours.

-The removed deciduous teeth can no longer be transplanted.

Prevention is the best medicine.

Make sure your child has a carpet that slips easily. Determine if your child is grasping stockings when learning to walk and run.

Wear them or walk barefoot to avoid slipping in socks. Running should not be allowed while carrying items. In particular, do not use the mouth. Consider moving or filling coffee table corners, etc. Eat while sitting. Your child’s early dental checkups can help them feel comfortable with your dentist. If they first saw the dentist after trauma, it may be a challenge for them in future diagnosis. Please discuss with your dentist their recommendations for oral and dental injuries.

Don’t panic. It will be all right.

Most of the injuries were minor. Some TLC and comfort, and some cold are very helpful to your child.

For your health,

Kevin McCurry, MD