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Sports competitions and recreational activities are practiced by infants, kids, and teenagers for their physical and mental health. Unfortunately, engaging in sports increases the chance of suffering trauma to the mouth's delicate and hard tissues, including lacerations to the lips, various injuries to the gingiva, tongue, or mucosa, chipped, luxated, or avulsed teeth, maxillary or mandibular fractures. The importance of the dentistry profession in connection to the prevention of dental and other orofacial sporting injuries has increased due to the popularity of contact sports and the encouraging of participation at a young age. Inculcating the prevention, management, and treatment of oral and face injuries, sports dentistry is the newest and most promising area of dentistry. Dentists should make it a point to tell parents about the orofacial damage caused by sports and about the different preventive measures that are available. They should also have solid clinical understanding of sports-related dentofacial injuries. In this article, we go over the different facets of sports-related injuries as well as the risk factors that go along with them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Avulsion and luxation account for upto 7.2% of injuries in the primary dentition. A range of treatment options are available that can help conserve the tooth after a traumatic episode. Following the traumatic loss of an anterior tooth it is important that an immediate replacement is provided in order to avoid esthetic, masticatory and phonetic difficulties and to maintain the edentulous space to avoid arch length discrepancy. The loss of an anterior tooth in a child or young adolescent may present a difficult prosthetic problem.3 This problem can be managed in several ways. In this article a fixed Groper's appliance was fabricated by using the patient's natural clinical crown from the avulsed teeth. This measure proved to be a very adequate, esthetic treatment solution before a permanent restorative plan could be developed in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]