Dr Rajiv Patel from the US will be a speaker at the upcoming ROOTS SUMMIT, which will take place from 9 to 12 May in Athens in Greece. His lecture will focus on dental trauma management and will cover a variety of scenarios, such as lateral luxation, crown-root fractures, intrusion and avulsion in growing individuals. In this interview, the passionate endodontist discusses how dental trauma management differs in children and adolescents, emphasises the role of endodontics in dental trauma patients and explains what all dental professionals should have on their dental trauma management checklist.