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Repair of untreated horizontal root fractures: two case reports
Author(s) -
Chala Sanaa,
Sakout Majid,
Abdallaoui Faïza
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
dental traumatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.82
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1600-9657
pISSN - 1600-4469
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-9657.2009.00774.x
Subject(s) - medicine , dentistry , pulp (tooth) , radiography , orthodontics , surgery
Abstract – To present two cases of root fractures which have healed spontaneously without any treatment? This article describes two untreated horizontal root fracture of the maxillary incisors. The fractured teeth were without any sign or symptom, and tested as vital to thermal and electric pulp test. These fractures were discovered during a routine full‐mouth radiographic examination.