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Case Reports in Dentistry
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 756526, 5 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/756526
Case Report

Traumatic Dental Injury—An Enigma for Adolescents: A Series of Case Reports

Akash Krishna,1 Manjunath Hampanna Malur,1 D. V. Swapna,2 Shiny Benjamin,3 and Chris A. Deepak2

1Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Peoples College of Dental Sciences and Research Centre, Bhopal 462037, India
2Dayanand Sagar College of Dental Sciences, Karnataka, Bangalore 560078, India
3Department of Endodontics, Vydehi Dental College, Karnataka, Bangalore 560066, India

Received 19 August 2012; Accepted 24 September 2012

Academic Editors: R. S. Brown, M. Feichtinger, M. H. K. Motamedi, and M. A. Polack

Copyright © 2012 Akash Krishna et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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