Root canal treatment. The facts vs fiction.
Quintessence Dental Clinic offers root canal treatments for our patients at our Kalyan nagar branch in Bangalore. Our dental clinic’s premier dentist Prof. Dr. Gaurav Ghosh is able to treat patients with care and provide a gentle approach to dentistry whilst maintaining the highest quality practices.
Root canal treatment is a specialised dentist treatment that Quintessence Dental Clinic performs when an injury or a large cavity damages the tooth’s root, causing the root to become infected or inflamed.
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Root canal treatment kills your teeth – Fiction
Quite the opposite, root canal treatment saves your tooth. Your tooth can still function without the root pulp once the infection has been removed by a dentist.
Root canal treatment is painful – Fiction
Undergoing a root canal treatment at the dentist is not a painful experience. Rather, the pain one feels whilst the root of the tooth is infected or inflamed is the worst of the pain you will feel. A dentist will provide anaesthesia to numb your tooth and root before the root canal is performed, effectively making the tooth pain free.
Once the procedure is fully completed, you should have a fully functional and pain free tooth.
It is better to extract an infected or injured tooth than do a root canal – Fiction
Long gone are the days when the preferred option was to remove an infected or injured tooth. Modern advances in dentistry see dentists being able to save teeth by performing a painless root canal treatment rather than extracting it.
Teeth need their opposing tooth for biting, chewing and maintaining the shape of the mouth. Removing teeth can cause other teeth to “migrate” or move into the gaps that have been formed with the removal of the tooth.
In most cases, a crown will be needed to restore the tooth’s structure after the root canal but even so.
A root canal needs more than one visit – Fiction
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Usually, a root canal treatment is done over one visits at the dentist’s clinic. The procedure is performed under anaesthesia to relieve the pain of the infected root. The infected or injured roots of the tooth are cleaned by the dentist using specialised drills and files. The canals of the tooth are thoroughly cleaned, the root canals shaped, and bacteria, pus and debris are removed. The interior of the tooth is flushed with disinfectants and then dried, sealed and filled. The internal core is built up to strengthen the tooth and the preparation and impression for a crown is taken. Then a temporary crown is fabricated to keep the tooth stable in position and covered until the permanent crown is completed by the laboratory and then cemented or bonded approximately 3 weeks later.
If you are suffering from an infected or injured tooth, don’t delay. Call Quintessence Dental Clinic today!
