1Associate Professor,Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Faculty of Dental Sciences, VSPM Dental College
2Assistant Professor, Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Faculty of Dental Sciences, VSPM Dental College
3Private Practitioner, Nagpur
*Corresponding Author E-mail: dr.patilswapnil@gmail.com
Online published on 24 January, 2020.
Horizontal root fracture in cervical third region of the tooth, presenting with pain and mobility are challenging situations for the clinicians to treat. Usually extraction is choice of treatment in cases where horizontal fractures are located more coronaldue to greater mobility and difficult stabilization all of which leading to poor prognosis. Current reportpresents with case of lower incisors with horizontal root fracture at cervical level initially advised for extraction, later stabilized with endodontic file and splinted as per the patient's refusal for extraction. Though the restored teeth presents with grade I mobility during the follow-up visits, but full filling the patients concerns for retaining her natural teeth and providing esthetic solution since last two years.
Horizontal Root Fracture, Endodontic File, Splinting, Endoimplant