Awareness about management of ′avulsed teeth′ among primary contact doctors

A questionnaire was designed and was given to physicians, paediatricians and paediatric surgeons working in Indore. 32% of the practitioners had come across children with tooth avulsion. 52% of the practitioners wanted to seek a dentist's opinion immediately. 41% of the practitioners would advise to keep the tooth in normal saline, only 1.8% of them would advise to carry the tooth in the child's mouth and milk. 91% did not know the balanced solution as a transport medium. 90% of them accepted that they had no knowledge on dental trauma management.