How to understand the root canal teeth

Root canal
Today, dentists are of the opinion that our natural teeth are the best. That is why they are doing their utmost to ensure that you do not lose. A root canal successfully, you can keep the tooth, otherwise you have no other choice than to get out.

Keeping your natural teeth, you prevent the other teeth lose their alignment and cause problems in the jaw or gum disease. Finally, the saving, you avoid having to be replaced by a bridge or an implant.

What is a root canal?
When does one need a root canal?
Points to Consider
Second surgery and treatment of root



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What is a root canal?

In endodontics, the root canal involves removing the infected tooth pulp, injured or dead.

The teeth are composed of three layers hard:

enamel
dentin
the cement
The space within these layers is called the canal. The latter is filled with fabric: the dental pulp. It is a soft tissue containing nerves and blood vessels to allow the tooth to grow. Once the tooth has completed its growth, it can survive without pulp. If the pulp is infected, it should be removed. The treatment is called root canal or endodontic treatment.

During your regular dental examination, your dentist ensures that teeth are not infected or damaged, even if everything seems normal. If a problem is detected and you need a root canal, your dentist can either do it himself or refer you to an endodontist - a specialist who has completed a minimum of two years of university training in this area. It can also refer you to a specialist children's dentist in the case of a tooth primary (milk) damaged.

Do not wait for evil. Consult your dentist as soon as you notice a problem such as caries, a shutter defective or that you made a bad tooth. By acting quickly, you have a better chance to prevent pain and save the tooth.

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When does one need a root canal?

The dental pulp can be damaged by a crack in the enamel, a deep decay or an accident. The bacteria can penetrate the tooth and thus infect the pulp, which can cause pain or inflammation. But sometimes the pulp may become infected or die without pain.

Your dentist may notice changes:

in the color of the tooth
in the appearance of gums
in the bone or the root of the tooth, thanks to the signs seen in radiography
Sometimes if the tooth is damaged, your dentist may enter through its review and radiographs that the pulp of the tooth may not survive. In all cases, the root canal treatment may reduce, even prevent the symptoms appear and save the tooth.

The procedure

Step 1
A member of the dental team put a dike around the tooth to protect it during treatment, against the bacteria that live in saliva.

Step 2
Your dentist or endodontist may proceed with local anesthesia, where risk of pain.

Step 3
Your dentist made a small opening in the tooth to enter the canal and pulp damaged.

Step 4
It removes the pulp, cleans and extends the channel with precision instruments.

Step 5
Then it fills and seals the canal with a material resembling rubber (called gutta-percha).

Stage 6
Finally, he plugged the opening of the tooth with a sealant temporary or permanent.

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Points to Consider

The root canal treatment may take one or more visits, depending on the complexity of the anatomy of the canal and the magnitude of damage to the pulp.

Sometimes, if the infection spread of the tooth to the bone - causing an abscess - infection should be drained before the channel is closed.

Your tooth may remain sensitive 1 to 2 weeks after treatment. It is rare that you feel intense pain or inflammation. If so, you should call your dentist or endodontist as soon as possible.

To look and function as much as possible, as a natural tooth, your tooth is then restored with a filling or a crown. The type of restoration will depend on the strength of what remains of the tooth treated. A tooth will probably post a crown since a lot of pressure is exerted on these teeth when you chew. If there is not enough natural tooth, your dentist can use a hub to help keep the crown in place. A discolored teeth can be bleached, is covered with a crown or a facet.

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Second surgery and treatment of root

Although the root canal succeeds in most cases, a second treatment is needed. The sealing material is removed and the new channel cleaned, prepared and sealed.

A dentist or endodontist may resort to surgery if a root canal treaty can not be done or has not been successful. The surgery is used to:

check the end of the canal to ensure that no cracks (or fractures);
remove parts of the canal that could not be cleaned in a conventional treatment;
eliminate an infection that has not healed after conventional treatment.
All dentists learn to channel salary during their studies. As against, in some cases complex surgery or treatment, your dentist can refer you to an endodontist. Most of the time, a endodontically treated tooth can be saved. But there are times when all attempts fail and there is no other choice than to extract the tooth.