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What Is a Root Canal?
The root canal treatment is used to treat infected teeth. When bacteria enter the pulp of the tooth, either through untreated decay or trauma, the pulp becomes inflamed and forms an abscess.
It is obvious that your tooth is infected and needs root canal therapy to keep the infection from getting worse and spreading to other nearby teeth or through the bloodstream. To deal with this, we will extract the diseased dental pulp along with its roots, clean the inside canals properly, and fill the tooth back up with a special material to restore its strength and shape. It's possible for the tooth to keep living off nutrients from neighbouring tissues without an intact dental pulp.
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Did you know…
Root canals have a 95% success rate.
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How It Works: The Root Canal Process
Consultation
In order to determine if a root canal is still possible, Dr. Mike Tran will examine your teeth and take digital x-rays.
Local Anesthesia
We will administer a local anesthetic to make the procedure painless.
Pulpectomy
A dental drill will be used to create an access hole into the tooth to allow access to the pulp chamber. Special tools will be used to scrape out the dental pulp and the roots of the tooth.
Cleaning the Canals
The canals in the tooth will be thoroughly cleaned and reshaped.
Filling
A gutta-percha filling will replace the tooth's missing pulp.
Dental Crown
The access hole will be sealed with a permanent filling and a crown may also be placed over the tooth.
Root Canal Options
Anterior
It is less common to perform anterior root canals on front teeth, but these thinner teeth have fewer canals and require a different approach to root canals. In order to gain access to the pulp chamber, we must first make an access hole on the back of the tooth, since the chewing surfaces of the teeth don't have enough room.
Infected pulp and roots are removed, and the canals are cleaned. Since front teeth do not have many canals, a permanent filling is usually all that is needed rather than a crown since they are not used for chewing.
Did you know…
A root canal can prevent the need for an extraction.
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Did you know…
If the infection has progressed too far through the tooth, a root canal may no longer be suitable and the tooth may need to be extracted.
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