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Broken front teeth reconstruction in Chennai
Date : 04/1/20
Broken front teeth reconstruction in Chennai
- Many patients suffer from a common dental problem that is nothing but a broken front tooth. Most common cause for the fracture of front tooth includes injury or trauma.
- Depending on the size of the fracture the treatment varies, chipping of a small piece of tooth can be repaired with a filling, while a large fracture requires root canal treatment, crown or even tooth replacement.
- A broken front tooth makes it difficult for you to eat, talk and smile so this requires a quick decision to undergo treatment.
- If left untreated the condition might worsen leading to furthermore fracture of the tooth, sensitivity of the particular tooth, pain, infection of the tooth root etc.
- In case of a simple fracture which involves the enamel and dentin part of the tooth, a tooth colored filling can solve the issue.
- Filling is a simple procedure and it is completely painless.
- On the first visit after clinical examination and digital photographs and radiograph filling is done. On the next visit polishing of the filling and tooth are done.
- Here is how we corrected a fractured tooth, a 27 years old young female patient who is beautician by profession came to our clinic with a chief complaint of broken front teeth, she recently fell from the staircase and broke her front teeth and needs an immediate treatment, patient also says that she feels very embarrassed to deal with her clients.
- On clinical examination: Patient presented with fractured front teeth(11 and 21), fluorosis and calculus.
- Digital photographs and radiographs were taken to analyse the condition of the teeth, which suggested no infection in the root tips of the broken teeth.
- Treatment plan suggested for her was full mouth scaling(cleaning) and smile designing with composites(tooth color filling)on the very same day she got her filling done and on the next day polishing for the filling was done.
