Many people seek to improve their health and wellness with New Year’s resolutions. When it comes to oral health, healthy habits can boost your quality of life and preserve your teeth and gums for a lifetime. Bad habits, on the other hand, could lead to the need for treatments such as root canal therapy from…
A tongue piercing or lip ring might seem like a great way to express your individuality but these piercings can present health concerns that might surprise you. For instance, constantly tapping tongue and lip piercings against your teeth could weaken them. Weakened teeth are prone to decay and infections that might require root canal treatment…
Some patients may wonder why they can’t just take antibiotics to treat a tooth infection like they would for an infection elsewhere in the body. They may have reservations about root canal treatment – although they are often unfounded – and look for alternatives. A tooth infection differs from infection elsewhere in the body in…
For many people, the word root canal causes anxiety, but this is usually due to various myths often circulating about the procedure. In fact, a root canal procedure itself is painless. An endodontist does a root canal procedure to eliminate discomfort and save the tooth. Modern technologies and anesthetics allow endodontists to perform root canals…
Patients may dread getting a root canal (which is unfounded—we’ll get to that in a minute!), but the procedure is tremendously valuable for salvaging teeth that have been so severely damaged by internal infection that they are at risk for being lost. While tooth replacement technology has advanced significantly in recent decades, it’s still preferable…
Because root canal treatment has such a bad—and undeserved—reputation, you might think that it would be better to have a tooth removed than to go through root canal therapy in order to preserve it. However, this is not the case. A root canal can help you keep your tooth, making sure your smile remains intact…
Ah, the poor unfairly maligned root canal is the most dreaded of all dental treatments, but unjustifiably so. Unfortunately, far too many patients buy into myths about root canals that cause unnecessary fear and anxiety and may delay getting treatment. The most common falsehood about getting a root canal is that the procedure causes significant…
The idea of root canal treatment causes anxiety in many patients. This treatment can be performed under a local anesthetic. However, because of anxiety and because of the fact that root canal procedures can take longer than regular fillings, many people prefer to use sedation as well. If you would feel more comfortable with sedation,…
Root canal treatment can help to preserve a biological tooth that has been extensively damaged due to facial trauma or as a result of large areas of decay. It is ideal to save a biological tooth rather than remove and replace it—even with a dental implant—for optimal form and function. Unfortunately, when a tooth has…
Endodontics is the branch of dentistry that focuses on treating the tooth pulp, or the soft interior tissues of the tooth. The most commonly known form of endodontic treatment is the root canal treatment. Recent advances in this school of dentistry have made endodontic treatment more effective and comfortable than ever. Advanced Imaging Techniques Advanced…