Cracked tooth syndrome is something that we see quite often in our practice. It’s usually very painful and there is constant acute pain. The first thing that we normally do is we try to assess how bad the crack is. If the crack is so bad that the tooth has split into two, and there’s no way to salvage the tooth, then the treatment for such a scenario would be to extract the tooth.
However, if the crack is actually not too bad and there’s enough tooth structure left, we normally would start by commencing root canal treatment to remove the inflamed nerves inside the tooth. And after doing the root canal treatment, it’s very common to continue with a crown.
