REPLANTATION IN GENERAL DENTAL PRACTICE

This paper presents a comparison of the outcome of two cases where tee th, avulsed in sporting accidents, were replanted in general dental pr actice and have been reviewed for 5 years. Avulsed teeth which were st ored dry, had a long extra-alveolar period and were splinted for a lon ger period of time, ultimately underwent replacement root resorption ( case 1). There was no evidence of resorption, after 5 years, in the to oth that was stored in the patient's own saliva and was replanted with in 45 minutes of being avulsed (case 2). The replantation procedure fo r these two cases was based on recent literature, which is also review ed in this paper, and a protocol for the management of avulsed teeth i s suggested.