Storage Media for Avulsed Tooth

Dental avulsion is the most severe type of traumatic tooth injuries because it causes damage to several structures and results in the complete displacement of the tooth from its socket in the alveolar bone. Maintaining the tooth in an adequate wet medium that can preserve, as longer as possible, the vitality of the periodontal ligament cells that remain on root surface is the key to success of replantation. Storage media produce conditions that closely resemble the original socket environment, with adequate osmolality , pH, nutritional metabolites and glucose, and thus create the best possible conditions for storage. Although these storage media can now be purchased in the form of retail products, the most common scenario is that such a product will not be readily available at the moment of the accident This book reviews the literature on the different storage media that have been investigated for avulsed teeth including cell and tissue culture solutions like HBSS, Viaspan® and Euro-Collins®; culture media (MEM); saline; natural products like water, saliva, bovine milk and its variations, propolis, green tea, red mulberry, egg white, coconut water, Gatorade® and Ricetral etc.