Predisposing and Contributing Factors for Complete and Incomplete Tooth Fractures

From Volume 26, Issue 4, May 1999 | Pages 150-158

Authors

S.G.S. Ellis

BDS, MSc, FDS RCS (Ed.)

Specialist Registrar in Restorative Dentistry, Charles Clifford Dental Hospital, Sheffield

Articles by S.G.S. Ellis

J.F. McCord

BDS, DDS, FDS DRD, RCS(Edin.), FDS RCS(Eng.), CBiol, MIBiol

Professor of Restorative Care of the Elderly, University Dental Hospital of Manchester

Articles by J.F. McCord

F.J.T. Burke

DDS, MSc, MDS, MGDS, FDS RCS(Edin.), FDS RCS, FADM

Glasgow Dental Hospital and School, Glasgow

Articles by F.J.T. Burke

Abstract

The rehabilitation of fractured teeth may create problems for both patient and clinician. This paper updates the reader on the many factors that have been implicated in the aetiology of fractures, so highlighting a preventive rather than curative perspective to clinical dentistry.

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