Molar tooth broke in half inside. What to do? - Dr. Ranjani Rao | V2 E-City Dental Center

It is very common that patients come with a tooth cracked or broken into two parts and there is excruciating pain, and it happens sometime in the middle of the night and sometimes while he were eating something, something like a stone or a piece of bone that turned out to be harder than normal and they bit on it; or they were biting into a nut or things like that and the tooth broke, there are two scenarios, it can be that there is an oblique crack and only a portion of crown is fractured and the pain is because of the mobile fragment and everytime they bite, patients experience severe pain and in this case it is very easy to remove the broken fragment and they can restore the tooth. It can be built up by doing root canal and by doing a crown. There are several ways of doing it but if the crack is propagated through and through, and the tooth is split into two, most often there is very little that we can do; we have to extract the tooth, remove it completely. However your doctor has a couple of options if you reach time on time. If he is able to explain it to you and get the tooth out and put in an implant to the same day, remember we should have saved extremely valuable and precious bone which we will otherwise lose if you come a few years later to get the replacement done. So an immediate implant is the ideal option if the tooth cracked and if there is no decay or infection and you went to the dentist at the earliest. So it is extremely important to get to your dentist at the earliest. Dr. Ranjani Rao Consultant Implantologist V2 E-City Dental Center, Electronic City Phase 1, Bengaluru https://www.ecitydental.com For Appointments call: +91 80 4130 3123