Do You Need Root Canal Treatment?
If the soft pulp underneath your tooth becomes infected and the nerve is irreparably damaged. Then we can perform a root canal.
A root canal starts by removing the infection. As you can see from the diagram below we clean out the affected area. Which is at the top of the tooth and towards the bottom. Once this is done we fill in the tooth so that it is hard and strong. Lastly we cap the space with a crown to prevent further damage. Making the tooth look like all your other ones.
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Signs and symptoms for possible root canal therapy:
- An abscess (or pimple) on the gums.
- Sensitivity to hot and cold.
- Severe toothache pain.
- Throbbing aching pain that wakes you up at night
- Sometimes no symptoms are present.
- Swelling and/or tenderness.
Reasons for root canal therapy:
- Decay has reached the tooth pulp (the living tissue inside the tooth).
- Infection or abscess have developed inside the tooth or at the root tip.
- Injury or trauma to the tooth.
What happens during your root canal treatment
Root canal treatment can take three to four visits, depending on the state of the tooth and the severity of the infection. Sedative dressings and temporary fillings are placed inside your tooth between visits in order to settle the surrounding tissues and destroy any remaining bacteria.
Step 1: Relief of Pain Removal of the infected/damaged nerve from the inside of the tooth. This is done by creating a hole through the crown of the tooth down into the roots. It is in within the roots that the procedure takes place.
Step 2: The root canals are thoroughly cleaned, shaped and sterilized to a form that can be completely sealed and prepared to receive a special root canal filling.
Step 3: The final stage is to seal the canals with a special filling material to prevent further infection.
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