Treatments

Root Canal

As the name suggests, Root canal therapy is the treatment for the root structure of the tooth. A tooth consists of a crown and roots. The crown is above the gum, while the roots are below it.

The roots attach the tooth to the jawbone. Inside the crown and the root, or the root canal, is the pulp. The pulp nourishes the tooth and provides moisture to the surrounding material. The nerves in the pulp sense hot and cold temperatures as pain. Patients need a root canal when there is inflammation or infection in the roots of a tooth.

During root canal treatment, an endodontist who specializes in such treatment removes the pulp inside the tooth, cleans, disinfects and shapes the root canals, and places a filling to seal the space.

Steps Involved in A Root Canal Therapy

Cleaning the Root Canal

Our team of dentists will first access your teeth. Then they remove everything inside the root canal.

With the patient under local anaesthesia, the dentist makes a small access hole on the surface of the tooth and removes the diseased and dead pulp tissue with very small files.

Filing the root canal

Then we will clean, shape and decontaminate the hollow area, using tiny files and irrigation solutions. After that the tooth is filled with a rubber-like material, using an adhesive cement to seal the canals completely.

The tooth is dead after the treatment. The patient will no longer feel any pain in that tooth because the nerve tissue has been removed, and the infection has been eliminated.

Adding a crown or filling

The teeth will be more fragile than it was before. The teeth with no pulp must receive their nourishment from the ligament that attaches the tooth to the bone. This supply is sufficient, but in time, the teeth will become delicate, so a crown or filling offers protection.

Until the crown or filling is complete, the patient should not chew or bite on the tooth. Once there is a crown or filling is done, the person can use the tooth as before.