Cracked tooth

Cracked tooth is defined as an incomplete fracture initiated from the crown and extending subgingivally. The fracture lines are almost always in mesio-distal direction. They may extent the whole mesio-distal lenght of the crown, but may also be either mesial or distal only. Cracked tooth is a problem found in premolars and molars. No separate fragments can be found in a cracked tooth.

Symptoms are highly variable, from symptomfree to almost continuous low-grade pain. Fracture lines are not visible in the radiographs because of their orientation.

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