A tooth breaking off on a partial or a denture snapping in half feels like a bigger crisis than it really is. Dental repairs are generally easier to fix than patients think, and, short of severe damage, a replacement is not usually the first choice for a lab. One of the most common types of fractures are midline ones, which generally occur either because of normal chewing pressure that has been applied over a period of time, or as a consequence of an accidental fall onto a hard surface. How the repair is done depends on putting the broken pieces back together accurately technicians line up the fragments, secure them, and use that alignment to guide the rebuild, so a clean break is actually easier to fix well than one with several small missing fragments. A broken or displaced tooth is a little different. If the tooth itself is undamaged, it can usually be repositioned and cemented back into the denture base. If it is cracked or missing altogether, a matching replacement tooth is ...