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Dental Trauma and Treatments

Dental Trauma and Treatments is a research topic within Emergency Medical Services. Science Explorer counts 17k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the epidemiology, management, and outcomes of traumatic dental injuries, with an emphasis on avulsion, primary dentition injuries, mouthguard use, and the impact on quality of life. It also covers guidelines for treatment, autotransplantation of teeth, and factors affecting pulpal healing.

  • Epidemiology
  • Traumatic Dental Injuries
  • Management
  • Avulsion
  • Primary Dentition
  • Mouthguards
  • Quality of Life
  • Treatment Guidelines
  • Autotransplantation
  • Pulpal Healing
Research works
17k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+15%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
India
22% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Dental Trauma and Treatments

This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.

Which countries lead Dental Trauma and Treatments research?

By volume, India and Brazil publish the most (523 and 429 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 India 523 works
  2. 2 Brazil 429 works
  3. 3 United States 324 works
  4. 4 China 315 works
  5. 5 Türkiye 220 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 128 works
  7. 7 Iran 102 works
  8. 8 Saudi Arabia 99 works
  9. 9 Japan 96 works
  10. 10 Egypt 95 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

India: 22.4%Brazil: 18.4%United States: 13.9%China: 13.5%6 others listed: 31.7%22%largest
India523 · 22.4%Brazil429 · 18.4%United States324 · 13.9%China315 · 13.5%6 others listed740 · 31.7%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Dental Trauma and Treatments research?

By volume in 2022-now, Stomatology Hospital publishes the most Dental Trauma and Treatments research, followed by Universidade de São Paulo and All India Institute of Medical Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Stomatology HospitalChina 29 works
  2. 2 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 23 works
  3. 3 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 22 works
  4. 4 Saveetha UniversityIndia 20 works
  5. 5 Kamineni Institute of Dental SciencesIndia 19 works
  6. 6 Sichuan UniversityChina 18 works
  7. 7 Government Dental College and HospitalIndia 18 works
  8. 8 Airlangga UniversityIndonesia 17 works
  9. 9 Datta Meghe Institute of Higher Education and ResearchIndia 16 works
  10. 10 Cairo UniversityEgypt 16 works

Who are the leading researchers in Dental Trauma and Treatments?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Dental Trauma and Treatments include David C. Schwebel and Eduardo Bernabé.

  1. 1 David C. Schwebel United States 210k citations
  2. 2 Eduardo Bernabé United Kingdom 178k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Dental Trauma and Treatments?

The most cited paper in Dental Trauma and Treatments is "Investigation of multipotent postnatal stem cells from human periodontal ligament" (Byoung‐Moo Seo, Masako Miura, Stan Gronthos et al., 2004), with 3,584 citations. Next come "Hydrophilic Gels for Biological Use" (2,981) and "Brief communication: The London atlas of human tooth development and eruption" (1,530).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Investigation of multipotent postnatal stem cells from human periodontal ligament Byoung‐Moo Seo, Masako Miura, Stan Gronthos et al. · The Lancet Jul 2004 3,584
2 Hydrophilic Gels for Biological Use O. Wichterle, D. Lím · Nature 1960 2,981
3 Brief communication: The London atlas of human tooth development and eruption Sakher J. AlQahtani, Mark Hector, Helen Mary Liversidge · American Journal of Physical Anthropology 22 Mar 2010 1,530
4 Reiterative signaling and patterning during mammalian tooth morphogenesis Jukka Jernvall, Irma Thesleff · Mechanisms of Development Open access Mar 2000 1,118
5 Revascularization of Immature Permanent Teeth With Apical Periodontitis: New Treatment Protocol? F. Banchs, M TROPE · Journal of Endodontics 19 Mar 2004 1,110
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Where is Dental Trauma and Treatments research done?

The largest centres of Dental Trauma and Treatments research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), Chennai (India), Xi'an (China) and Istanbul (Türkiye).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 73 works
  2. 2 ChennaiIndia 64 works
  3. 3 Xi'anChina 49 works
  4. 4 IstanbulTürkiye 49 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 48 works
  6. 6 TehranIran 42 works
  7. 7 BeijingChina 36 works
  8. 8 AnkaraTürkiye 36 works
  9. 9 RiyadhSaudi Arabia 33 works
  10. 10 New DelhiIndia 32 works
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Where is the best place to study Dental Trauma and Treatments?

Among universities, judged by research, Sichuan University, All India Institute of Medical Sciences and Saveetha University score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 15.22%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Sichuan UniversityAll India Institute …Shahid Beheshti Univ…Saveetha University
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Citation excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Sichuan UniversityChina 77.629.3%2.5×18 +42.0%
2All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 69.215.6%6.2×22 +123.5%
3Saveetha UniversityIndia 58.110.2%6.6×20 -7.5%
4Shahid Beheshti University of Medical SciencesIran 56.511.9%13.9×16 +122.6%
5King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 55.415.4%4.5×12 +37.8%
6Universidade de São PauloBrazil 54.46.8%3.6×23 -10.9%
7Cairo UniversityEgypt 54.37.8%6.5×16 +28.8%
8Damascus UniversitySyria 52.116.5%39.9×10 +76.1%
9University College LondonUnited Kingdom 51.619.4%1.7×9 +56.6%
10Aristotle University of ThessalonikiGreece 50.619.3%5.8×9 +87.1%

Universities only. The score blends citation excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Dental Trauma and Treatments, country by country

Is Dental Trauma and Treatments research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 15% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Dental Trauma and Treatments.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Dental Trauma and Treatments as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.015% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Dental Trauma and Treatments0.016% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Dental Trauma and Treatments over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Dental Trauma and Treatments10.4% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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