Severe Tooth Pain? You Might Need Root Canal Treatment

If you experience a chilling pain in your teeth and jaw and it is generally localized around a tooth or two, it could be an infected root canal. Inside the hard over of enamel and dentin, lies the soft pulp of your teeth. This pulp contains the tissues, blood vessels etc that provide nourishment to your teeth. This pulp plays a major role in growth of teeth during young age; however, teeth in adults can get nourishment from the nearby tissues in the absence of dental pulp.

Any infection or damage to the dental pulp because of a trauma or poor dental procedure can result in swelling and damage to the pulp inside the teeth. This can result in severe tooth pain and make it hard to chew food easily from the affected side. Without proper treatment, a damaged root pulp results in coloration of the teeth, tooth pain and dental abscess in the end. 

What is Root Canal Treatment?

Root Canal Treatment or RTC is one of the important dental procedures used to ensure proper removal of the infected or swollen dental pulp, cleaning and then disinfected the inside of the teeth. The use of a rubber-like material called Gutta-percha helps in restoring your infected teeth and replacing the infected pulp. The teeth is further restored with crown or filling. 

 

How Does It Help?

Root canal treatment helps in ensuring restoration of thedamaged teeth. It helps in the removal of the damaged pulp; hence, ensuring no room for dental abscess. One can have natural-looking teeth with no difficulty in chewing. The best part about this treatment is that the patient can easily continue to eat their favorite foods without experiencing any pain during biting or chewing. RTC is also helpful in providing protection to the teeth from excessive wear and tear. The teeth and its restored interiors can now function in a normal way for a long, long time to come. 

Find a Qualified Surrey Dentist or endodontic specialist

Root Canal Treatment has improved and advanced in the recent past. It now takes 2-3 appointments with a qualified dentist to restore the damaged teeth. It is important to find an experienced endodontic specialist for root canal or a dentist who has years of experience behind him with respect to root canal treatments.