ROOT CANAL TREATMENT

It is often referred as endo treatment in short. It is generally related to tooth decay that has extended to the blood supply of the tooth called “The Pulp”. If the pulp is infected then the infection can travel to the surrounding tissues leading to abscess formation which causes severe pain in the tooth. At this point only root canal treatment can bail the tooth out of disaster.

The patient can complain of pain radiating to the head or ears, severe throbbing pain especially at night while sleeping, unbearable pain while having hot or cold food, severe pain on intake of sweets, intermittent throbbing pain or continuous dull/throbbing pain, swelling around tooth or pus drainage from around the affected tooth. Patient can also complain of discoloured tooth. The tooth can also be tender while chewing.

Once the diagnosis is done by our team that root canal has to be performed then you will be appointed to our specialist in root canal therapy Dr. Parth Desai who will perform this treatment with ease and in no time. Firstly local anaesthesia is administered so that no pain is perceived by you while the treatment is going on. The decay is removed and the infected pulp is exposed. After this starts the procedure to remove the infected pulp from all canals of the tooth followed by cleaning them with rotary and hand files. This leads to the removal of all the infected structure and bacteria from the canal. The canal is cleaned and increased in size gradually by these files. Intermittently the canals are disinfected by medicated solutions to ensure sterile environment where bacteria cannot survive. Once complete cleaning is performed the canals are dried and an inert filling material called gutta percha points are filled in place of the nerves along with a biocompatible sealer. Series of oral X-rays are required to check the complete removal of infected tissue. The rest of the tooth cavity is filled with tooth coloured restoration onto which a crown will be placed. This procedure can take upto 3-4 visits.

But our root canal specialist Dr. Parth Desai can complete this procedure in a single visit with the help of his precision and by using advanced technological gadgets like electronic apex locaters, motor driven files and a microscope. Single sitting root canal therapy can take upto 45-50 minutes. He works with utmost precision cutting down on your precious time without compromising the quality of treatment provided by us at V4U Dental Care & Implant Centre.

Once the tooth is treated it becomes brittle as the blood supply is lost. Hence a crown is adviced to be placed on the root canal treated tooth. The patient is informed that for next 2 days he/she may feel pain or discomfort in the treated tooth as it is in the healing process. This pain could be due to over extension of the infected material out of the apex into surrounding area while cleaning the canal. This would cause local inflammation that takes around two days to heal. The patient is informed not to eat hard food from the same side till the whole treatment is over. Incase anaesthesia is administered then patient should refrain from eating for 2-3 hours until the weaning away of anaesthesia. The patient is advised to come for regular checkup after every 6 months.