Treatment for a Fractured or Cracked Teeth

If you’ve chipped the smallest amount of enamel from your teeth, our best dentist in Bandra could make repairs using the use of a filling. If the repair is on the front of your tooth or is able to be observed when you smile the dentist may employ a process known as bonding. This procedure uses the colored composite tooth.

Bonding is an easy procedure that doesn’t usually need numbing the tooth. To bond a tooth the dentist first sands its surface using an oil or gel to roughen it up and let the bonding material stick to it. Then, our dentist at the Bandra clinic apply an adhesive substance to the tooth, followed by a tooth-colored material. After creating the bonding material to appear like natural teeth the dentist utilizes ultraviolet light to set the substance.
We ensure that nobody will ever be able to prove that your tooth is broken

Causes of a cracked tooth

Teeth crack because of a variety of issues, including:

• Pressure from teeth grinding
• Fillings so large they weaken the integrity of the tooth
• Chewing or biting hard foods, such as ice, nuts, or hard candy
• Blows to the mouth, such as might happen with a car accident, sporting injury, fall, or even a fistfight
• Abrupt changes in temperature in the mouth — for instance, from eat something extremely hot and then trying to cool your mouth with ice water
• Age, with most teeth cracks occurring in people over 50

Types of cracked teeth

• Craze lines. These are super-small cracks in the enamel (the solid outer covering) of teeth. They cause no pain and don’t require any treatment.
• Fractured cusp. This kind of crack generally occurs around a dental filling. It usually doesn’t affect the pulp of the tooth (the soft centre of the tooth where nerves, connective tissue, and blood vessels are) and, as a result, doesn’t cause much pain.
• Cracks that extend into the gum line. A tooth with vertical damage that extends through it but hasn’t yet reached the gum line is generally savable. However, if the crack extends into the gum line, that tooth may need to be extracted. Prompt treatment offers the best chance of saving the tooth.
• Split tooth. It is a tooth with a crack that travels from its surface to below the gum line. It can be separated into two segments. With such an extensive crack, it’s an unlikely dentist can save the entire tooth, but your dentist may be able to save a portion of it.
• Vertical root fracture. This type of crack begins below the gum line and travels upward. It often doesn’t produce much in the way of symptoms unless the tooth becomes infected. Chances are, the tooth will have to be extracted.

Symptoms of a cracked tooth

Not every cracked tooth will produce symptoms. But when it does, common ones include:

• Pain when chewing or biting, especially when you release the bite
• Sensitivity to heat, cold, or sweetness
• Pain that comes and goes but is rarely continuous
• Swelling of the gum around the affected tooth

Complications of a cracked tooth

Perhaps the biggest complication of a cracked tooth is an infection that can spread to the bone and gums. Some symptoms of a dental infection (also known as a tooth abscess) include:

• • fever
  • pain when chewing
  • swollen gums
  • sensitivity to heat and cold
  • tender glands in the neck
  • bad breath

Your dentist may try to drain pus from the infection and then prescribe an antibiotic to kill the bacteria.