Yes. If the tooth splits right down. If the tooth is cracked right down the middle, and if it splits and shatters into small bits and pieces, then there’s no hope in saving the tooth. Then it’s down to extraction and replacing the tooth with a denture, dental implant or a dental bridge.
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Is tooth extraction one of the ways to deal with dental traumas?
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What is considered dental trauma?
Dental trauma is a very big topic and it covers quite a lot of things. The trauma that you can sustain to your teeth can be very simple or it can be very complicated. For example, you could have a small chip on your front tooth, that’s considered a traumatic injury to your tooth. It can be just a small little chip and might not even cause pain, but it can still be considered to be trauma. On the other spectrum, you could have trauma to your teeth as a result of a very serious accident, for example, road traffic accident.
Is it possible to have sustained dental trauma without knowing it?
Yes, you could have dental trauma without even knowing it. A very common minor traumatic injury to the tooth that I often see happens when you are eating. For example, if you’re eating and you are biting down on something really hard. For example, using your teeth to bite on chilli crab shells, or if you use your teeth to open beer bottles. People use their teeth to do a lot of silly things. So when you do that, sometimes you injure the tooth by using too much force on it and then you can have a chipped tooth or you can have a small crack on the tooth.