Cracked tooth syndrome

Facial pain

Published in Peter R Wilson, Paul J Watson, Jennifer A Haythornthwaite, Troels S Jensen, Clinical Pain Management, 2008

Peter Svensson, Lene Baad-Hansen

Dentine hypersensitivity is a common clinical problem where patients experience sharp or shooting pain in a tooth as a result of mechanical or thermal stimulation of the dentinal surface. Dentine hypersensitivity most often occurs in the cervical and root areas of the tooth.146 Cracked-tooth-syndrome refers to an incomplete fracture of a vital tooth that may extend into the pulp. The symptoms are a sharp pain evoked by chewing and is relieved by removing the pressure from the tooth.147 The pain is poorly localized and the radiographic examination does not reveal pathology.

Survival rate after endodontic treatment in general dentistry for cracked teeth with different coronal restorations

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Published in Acta Odontologica Scandinavica, 2021

Winnie Nguyen Thi, Leif Jansson

Tooth cracks are a frequent clinical problem in general dentistry [1] and described as an incomplete tooth fracture [2] or as the cracked tooth syndrome [3]. In a published document by the American Association of Endodontics (AAE), in 2008, the ‘cracked tooth syndrome’ is characterised by an acute pain from mastication and a sharp, brief pain with cold. There are however other signs and symptoms associated with longitudinal cracks such as irreversible pulpitis, pulp necrosis and apical periodontitis. The term ‘cracked tooth syndrome’ is therefore not longer considered a valid description for cracked teeth. The AAE define a cracked tooth as an incomplete tooth fracture initiating from the crown and extending subgingivally [http://www.aae.org/specialty/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/ecfesum08.pdf].

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