Finding vertical root fractures can be tricky. As digital imaging technology improves, clinicians and researchers are fine-tuning the best approach for radiographically detecting vertical root ...

Whether a vertical root fracture (VRF) is complete or incomplete can be difficult to diagnose. Now, the authors of a new study in the Journal of Endodontics ask, if a practitioner is trying to ...

A split tooth is usually the result of a fracture that hasn’t been treated. There is a chance the tooth must be removed entirely. Vertical root fractures. This type of major fracture seems to ...

separating a section of the tooth Vertical root fracture: Cracks begin in the root and move up toward the chewing surface Decayed teeth are weaker and so will easily fracture Teeth ...