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Emergency Broken Tooth Repair

When a tooth is damaged, steps need to be taken immediately to provide appropriate care for the tooth. If something has happened to a filling, or if you damaged a tooth because of chipping, breaking or a fracture, take some steps until you can see your dentist. If you don’t, the tooth will suffer other dental problems and infection may set in. You may even end up losing the tooth.

How long does it take a broken tooth to discolor?

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My daughter knocked her front baby tooth loose. The dentist said to watch it for discoloration to see if the root was broken. How long will it take to discolor? It has been a week and I haven’t noticed anything yet.
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Oh, this could take weeks or even a couple months... sometimes there's a trauma and the nerve doesn't die for a year or more!

The good news is, it's a baby tooth, and will eventually be replaced. You didn't say how old your daughter is, but you want to leave that tooth in as long as possible to help guide the adult tooth into the right place and to hold the space and prevent crookedness.

Even discoloration isn't a big deal - it only needs treatment if there are signs of infection on the tooth afters the nerve dies. This would look like pain, swelling, a "pimple" like area on the gums in front of the tooth. This would then need a "pulpotomy" which is dentist talk for a kind of baby root canal. No big deal.

good luck!

Broken Tooth?

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I think that one of my teeth is broken or at least part of it has broke off, it is one of my teeth on the top row it is the back of the tooth. Part of the tooth feels sharp, but I am in no pain…at all. It is one of my molars just […]

Cracked lower wisdom tooth?

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I cracked my lower wisdom tooth on a chicken bone. I have a dental appointment on 15th January and they will not bring it forward for me so I have to wait over two weeks to get it fixed. In the mean time, every time I chew and talk, my tongue scrapes against the crack […]

The Best Way to Lose a Tooth - Do Not Use Mouthguard

The spring sports season is upon us. According to the National Youth Sports Safety Foundation (NYSSF), student athletes account for a significant part of the 15 million dental injuries and the five million cases of traumatically lost teeth that occur every year.

Broken tooth hurts?

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I have a tooth that broke into to and I cant get to dentist for 2 days what would be a good med to take to get rid of the pain? The pain lvl is 10 and all most drops me to my knees when it throbs.

Broken, Cracked Tooth

1. Broken tooth hurts?

2. Cracked lower wisdom tooth?

3. Broken Tooth?

4. How long does it take a broken tooth to discolor?




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