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Just the mere words, ‘Root Canal Treatment’, used to fill toothache sufferers with fear and dread. Visitors to Designer Dental Studio will know that it is a simple, painless procedure. Some patients even fall asleep during treatment. To understand, how we have managed to this, we will first get to the root of ‘root canal’.
Occasionally, the nerve in a tooth can die. This can cause an unbearable toothache that prevents you from doing normal daily tasks. You may require pain medication or even antibiotics to settle the discomfort. While this minimises your symptoms short term, the toothache will be recurring unless the inflamed and dying nerve is removed.
The way to remove the nerve that allows us to save the tooth is called Root Canal Treatment.
Although the nerve of the tooth is dead or dying, the actual tooth is not. To save the tooth, we can clean out the small space in the centre of the tooth occupied by the nerve, disinfect the space and then seal it. Sealing the tooth will prevent future colonisation of this space by bacteria. This treatment effectively saves the tooth as the tooth does not require blood supply from the nerve for its successful function.
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