Cracked!

Most of the time, no matter what you do to your tooth/teeth we can figure out someway to save them...whether a filling or crown or root canal or something else.
But occasionally a patient presents with a situation where no way no how can I fix the the problem...and here is one of those situations. A cracked tooth, where the crack runs the entire width of the tooth and the two pieces are now separated.
Usually this can be a rather tricky diagnosis...because the tooth pieces that are cracked are not separated..but in this case it is rather obvious...
In this photo..rather gruesome, you can see an up close picture of a molar where the crack has developed and the tooth is now in two pieces! Amazingly the patient has no pain whatsoever and was not even aware of the seriousness of this situation.
The patient has been referred to a surgeon for removal of the tooth and hopefully we will be able to place an implant to restore him back to full function.