Cracked teeth: Apart from dental trauma, habits such as; ice biting, grinding, chewing hard objects, or opening objects with the teeth can cause cracks in dental tissue.

Treatment can vary from a simple filling or indirect ceramic restoration, to root canal treatment or extraction (it depends on the crack’s severity).

Tooth fracture: If you feel pain when eating or when the temperature changes, it’s possible that you’ve got a tooth fracture. The type of treatment that you need depends heavily on the type of dental trauma that your teeth have been through.

Minor chips are relatively easy to repair, and generally involves reattaching the piece which has been broken off, or replacing it with another tooth-colored material.

If you’ve broken a larger part of the tooth, but the pulp is not damaged, your dentist may restore and cover the tooth with porcelain indirect restorations.

If the pulp has been seriously damaged, the tooth will require root canal treatment before a crown placement.

Root fracture: If the fracture has extended all the way down to the root, the tooth may need to be extracted.

Dislodged (Luxated) teeth: After trauma, a tooth can end up being pushed to one side, out of, or into its socket. The treatment will vary depending on the severity of the damage, but the quicker the stabilization the better the long term outcome will be:

• The tooth can be gently pushed back into the socket by hand.
• Root canal may be necessary in permanent dentition. If the tooth pulp has started to die (this treatment should be beginning approximately one week after the injury).

Knocked out (Avulsed) teeth: It is often caused by trauma that affected the oral cavity and requires immediate dental attention for the tooth to be saved, the prognosis depends on:

• How long have the teeth been outside of the mouth (60 minutes’ maximum)
• The medium in which it was stored and carried (milk, saliva, saline solution or if the tooth has been immediately re-implanted in the socket after avulsion) It is important that the tooth does not dry out, otherwise the periodontal ligament won’t survive.

Broken jaw: After having an accident, if you can’t bring your upper and lower teeth together and are in pain, you may be experiencing a broken jaw. It is necessary to seek emergency treatment in a hospital.