title: Spontaneously healed root fractures: two case reports.
abstract: We report on two undiagnosed horizontal root fractures of two maxillary right central incisors in two different patients caused by dental trauma which occurred several years ago. These fractures were discovered during a routine full-mouth radiographic examination. While, in case one, the fracture was located in the middle-third of the root, it was in the cervical-third of the root in case two. The fractured teeth were observed to have healed spontaneously without any sign or symptom, and tested as vital to electric pulp test.
authors.affiliation: Department of Endodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Hacetteppe University, Ankara, Turkey. mgorduysus@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Melahat
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Görduysus
authors.forename: Nihal
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Avcu
authors.forename: Omer
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Görduysus
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D000328:Adult; D001914:Boxing / Q000293:injuries; D003782:Dental Pulp / Q000502:physiology; D017102:Fracture Healing / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007180:Incisor / Q000293:injuries*; D008297:Male; D008437:Maxilla; D008875:Middle Aged; D012075:Remission, Spontaneous; D014082:Tooth Fractures / Q000503:physiopathology*; D014092:Tooth Root / Q000293:injuries* / Q000503:physiopathology