Evolution and Advent of Newer Classification Systems of Traumatic Dental Injuries: A Review of Literature

Traumatic dental injuries (TDIs) are regarded as public health-related problems or issues due to their higher and variable prevalence and physiological, physical, economic, and psychosocial consequences. In addition, TDIs can have a negative impact on the quality of life of children and adolescents. An appropriate classification or categorization of TDIs is considered to be of significance for diagnosis, its proper dental management and also for the comprehensive recoding, and standard reporting of scientific data of epidemiological studies in the scientific literature. Literature related reveals numerous classifications of TDIs. However, several drawbacks or limitations of the previous classifications and then newer or modified classifications of TDI have been mentioned or reported in relevant literature. Moreover, a wide range of classification systems of TDIs has caused both confusion and contradiction to the understanding in this context. Very recently, International Classification of Disease-11 World Health Organization classification of TDI (2018), Eden Baysal Dental Trauma Index (2020), Modified Eden Baysal Dental Trauma Index (2021), and NA0D (2022) have been reported in the literature. The aim of this article is to overview and highlight the literature related to the different types of classification systems of TDIs.