Sports Dentistry

Sports Dentistry is an evolving profession. It is one of the most recent and upcoming field of Dentistry and a new branch of Sports Medicine which deals with the prevention, treatment and effective management of atheletics-related orofacial injuries and associated diseases. With the increasing sports participation of children and adolescents in schools and colleges, preventive measures becomes utmost important for a dental practitioner. The present treatise is the outcome of my experiences and knowledge learned from preparation works of Library Dissertation during my PG Courses (Pedodontics & Preventive Dentistry) at the TMU Dental College & Research Centre, TMU, Moradabad, India and tries to explore the different elements of sports dentistry from dental trauma to adults or pediatric patients including the subsequent challenges and considerations to restoring the tooth as well as endodontic problems.