Liran Levin of Saskatoon has created the first Global Dental and Oral Trauma Day to bring awareness to proper treatment of traumatic dental injuries, particularly in sport.
Liran Levin, president of the International Association of Dental Traumatology, says it is important to do what you can to prevent traumatic oral injuries, but to also know what you need to do if one should occur.Hockey season is just around the corner and while many will be focused on the players on the ice, some are looking out for their oral safety.
“Studies have shown that in the world, there are more than one billion people who have experienced dental trauma,” said Liran Levin, president of the International Association of Dental Traumatology.This prompted Levin to create the inaugural Global Dental and Oral Trauma Day. Levin explained that there is not a lot of awareness about prevention and proper management of these kinds of injuries, and that the day brings the importance of prevention and treatment to the forefront.“When you break a bone and you have to go with a cast for a while, it heals and everything goes to normal; you do a little bit of physiotherapy, everything is good,” Levin said.
The International Association of Dental Traumatology has also launched a free app called ToothSOS, which outlines ways to both prevent and treat injuries should they ever happen. “There is a section about prevention, but there’s also a section where you can click on what exactly happened to your teeth and then it will direct you to what to do immediately and where to go and how urgent it is,” Levin said.
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