Root canal treatment in Root Fracture.

Abstract

21 - year - old Thai woman with discoloration and patial fracture maxillary left central incisor came to see a dentist. From oral examination, # 21 had fractured about incisal third, tooth discoloration, no mobility, no fistula, negative to percussion, no pocket and no response to electric pulp tester. Additional radiophaphic examination (periapical film) show transverse fracture on middle third of the root. Root canal treatment was performed by calcium hydroxide therapy for a hard tissue barrier at fracture line. The canal was then filled with Gutta percha cone. After complete root canal treatment and walking bleach with sodium perborate,composit rasin was placed on fractured crown.