Are there home remedies to relieve pain from a cracked tooth?

Identifying a symptomatic cracked tooth can be challenging. There are a few methods that can help:1) WaitingTime will make the offending tooth known. This is usually because the symptoms (tenderness on chewing or thermal sensitivity) will tend to get worse if there is a truly cracked tooth. Radiographic (xray) changes related to a crack will also become more obvious. Waiting also helps to eliminate other diagnoses, such as tooth tenderness from bruxism (grinding of teeth) or referred pain from sinusitis.

Dentists choose treatment plans based on many different factors. Some of these factors have nothing to do with clinical data. As a patient, your dentist should go through the different treatment options with you so that you understand the treatment itself, and the long term maintenance required with that selection. Keeping the tooth by performing root canal treatment and a crown may mean that the tooth may still crack further and require extraction at a later date.