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Includes a consideration of means available to provide acute care for a patient suffering from cracked tooth syndrome.
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Provides a comprehensive review of the available literature of both direct and indirect restorations/restorative materials to manage an incompletely fractured posterior tooth.
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Introduces the concept of the direct coronal splint as a novel approach for the management of this distressing condition.
Abstract
The second of this two part series on 'cracked tooth syndrome' will focus on the available methods for the immediate, intermediate and definitive management of patients affected by this condition. Included in this article is a comprehensive account of the relative merits/drawbacks of various restorative materials and their respective techniques of application for the treatment of symptomatic, incompletely fractured posterior teeth.
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Banerji, S., Mehta, S. & Millar, B. Cracked tooth syndrome. Part 2: restorative options for the management of cracked tooth syndrome. Br Dent J 208, 503–514 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bdj.2010.496
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