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Deformity in the face, for example a sunken cheekbone or teeth which do not align properly, suggests the presence of fractures. Asymmetry can suggest facial fractures or damage to nerves. [3] People with mandibular fractures often have pain and difficulty opening their mouths and may have numbness in the lip and chin. [4]
Enamel infractions can also be found as a result of iatrogenic damage inadvertently caused by instrumentation during dental treatments. As of 2024, the prevalence of pathology reaches over 90%. In patients aged 20 years, an average of 4 intact teeth with enamel cracks are identified.
This can happen from trauma such as a fall where the teeth are impacted by a hard object causing a chip to occur. Enamel fracture of tooth 11 on the incisal, biting, surface The term “craze lines” and " enamel infraction " are also used to describe minute incomplete cracks exclusive to the enamel surface.
Cracked tooth syndrome could be considered a type of dental trauma and also one of the possible causes of dental pain.One definition of cracked tooth syndrome is "a fracture plane of unknown depth and direction passing through tooth structure that, if not already involving, may progress to communicate with the pulp and/or periodontal ligament."
[10]: 24 The term is falling into disfavor and has given way to the more generalized description of fractures and cracks of the tooth, which allows for the wide variations in signs, symptoms, and prognosis for traumatized teeth. A fracture of a tooth can involve the enamel, dentin, and/or pulp, and can be orientated horizontally or vertically.
Other symptoms may include loose teeth (teeth on either side of the fracture will feel loose because the fracture is mobile), numbness (because the inferior alveolar nerve runs along the jaw and can be compressed by a fracture) and trismus (difficulty opening the mouth). [citation needed]
When you crack your neck, that feeling of relief is caused by releasing some gas bubbles which relieves some of the pressure inside the joint.” The cracking sound that you hear or feel is the ...
The signs and symptoms of these may present during a dive, on surfacing, or up to several hours after a dive. The principal conditions are decompression illness (which covers decompression sickness and arterial gas embolism ), nitrogen narcosis , high pressure nervous syndrome , oxygen toxicity , and pulmonary barotrauma (burst lung).