What Causes Teeth to Crack?

When small fine cracks start to appear on teeth, most people do not know or pay little attention to this problem. It is usually during a scale and polish a dentist may spot the problem. Therefore, is treatment required for this?

Although teeth are the most amazing sensory organ of the body and has the hardest tissue of the body known as enamel. However, teeth can still be worn down and the appearance of cracks to some extent is considered normal. So do you have to treat teeth with small cracks?  

Some patients think that small cracks which are shallow and not obvious to the eye that does not cause any aesthetic issues does not require treatment. There are also patients who take this issue seriously and start protecting their teeth to prevent these crack from forming into larger cracks and start treatment as soon as possible.

Prevention is Better than Treatment

The reason for fine cracks to appear in teeth could be down to a number of reasons such as eating overly hard foods and damage to the tooth. If you don’t have any sensitivity to hot and cold, other symptoms or change in color of the tooth you currently don’t require any treatment. You should however pay more attention to oral hygiene and take extra care of the teeth.  

If you already have pain and sensitivity to hot and cold temperatures you need to start using toothpaste for sensitive teeth or make an appointment with your dentist for Dental Desensitization Therapy using composite resin to repair the tooth. Extra care needs to be taken after with restrictions of eating hard foods if you continue the cracks in the teeth will get bigger and deeper and this could result in the need for root canal treatment and in more serious cases the eventual removal of the tooth. Therefore, we stress the importance of seeing a dentist as soon as you notice cracks in the teeth and a change in color.