DOI: 10.36347/sjds.2018.v05i02.001

Pages: 50-53

Dental traumatic injuries are one of the most uninvited emergencies, resulting in emotional, aesthetic, functional and psychological stress. Tooth avulsion is the most common dental traumatic injury. It is associated with exarticulation or total luxation of the tooth out of its socket. Avulsion could arise as a result of trauma, sports injury or fights. Once the avulsion has taken the place, the tooth should be replaced back in it’s socket after proper cleaning and disinfection. This process of replantation, if cannot be carried out by the patient or friends/relatives at the site, tooth has to be carried to the dental clinic. The transport medium assumes importance, in the later situation. The transport media ought to be one that maintains the vitality of the periodontal ligaments of the tooth. Over the last few years various new transport media have been advocated for this purpose. This article focuses on the advantage and disadvantage of the contemporary transport media.