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Question: Dental

(Click the link to comment and to vote – voting not working through email, sorry!) You are seeing a 3 year old who was running in the house, tripped and fell, hitting his mouth on the coffee table. On exam,… Continue Reading →

Question: Dental

(Click the link to comment and to vote – voting not working through email, sorry!) You are seeing a 17 year old male who had his left upper impacted wisdom tooth extracted 3 days ago. He comes in complaining of… Continue Reading →

Question: Oral

(Click the link to comment and to vote – voting not working through email, sorry!) You are seeing a 1 week old with the pictured oral lesions. 

Question: Trauma

(Click the link to comment and to vote – voting not working through email, sorry!) A 7 year old boy presents to the ED after falling off his bike and impacting his mouth against the handlebar and the ground. Bystanders… Continue Reading →

Question: Swelling

(Click the link to comment and to vote – voting not working through email, sorry!) A 10-year old child is brought in for swelling that developed 2 hours ago around the mouth as well as a sensation of difficulty swallowing… Continue Reading →

Question: Dental

(Click the link to comment and to vote – voting not working through email, sorry!) A 19 year old man presents 4 hours after leaving his dentist office from wisdom tooth extraction. He has been having bleeding from the socket… Continue Reading →

Question: Dental

(Click the link to comment and to vote – voting not working through email, sorry!) A 4 year old child comes in 20 minutes after falling with avulsion of her left upper lateral incisor. The parents have brought the tooth… Continue Reading →

Cafeteria run

Your local hospital cafeteria can be a useful resource in managing your PED patients: Sugar liberally applied to the edema of a paraphimosis or rectal prolapse may help decrease swelling and improve reduction efforts A mayonnaise packet provides useful lubricant… Continue Reading →

Tooth avulsion, no coe-pak

What do you do if you have a patient with a tooth avulsion and no commercial periodontal dressing? You can use the flexible thin metal nasal bridge on an N95 mask and glue the reimplanted avulsed tooth to an adjacent… Continue Reading →

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