Root Canal

Root canal, what is it? Why do you have to conserve your tooth instead of extracting it?

Do you estimate important to protect your teeth? All these new information and others are on this page.

Many years ago, when people had an infected tooth, the percentage chance to save that tooth was weak.

Over years, searchers have offered a new technology allowing to conserve the tooth. That device is called root canal therapy.

The way used by a specialist(dentist) to treat a tooth which is infected. The process consists to go to central part of the tooth (pulp) formed of blood vessels and nerves to take off all soft content and that is called root canal procedure.

Generally, the teeth are composed of hardly calcified material, except the inner part where the pulp is in a hallow.

The latter is divided in two parts: The hallow is more big in the tooth crown and houses the most part of blood vessels and nerves whereas the root part is narrow and allows contact between the central inner part and outside of the tooth.

Blood vessels bring nutrients whereas nerves provide the sensation to feel hot or cold to teeth. When the pulp is infected, few time later, it becomes died.

If untreated, the infections process follows its way maybe until the tooth loss.

After removal of pulp, the specialist has to clean and disinfect the hollow with chemical products to eliminate all microbes called also bacteria in the canals.

After, a material will be used to seal off the canal in order to protect it.As the tooth becomes very brittle after that, the specialist may advise you to place a protector crown over the tooth to avoid all complication.

Now you can ask yourself what is root canals treatment? Without problem you could answer that this is one of the best way to save an infected tooth and conserve you dazzling smile.

Now when you have an infected pulp, your first decision will not be its removal but the possibility to envisage with your dentist a root canal.

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