Endodontic Treatment: Resolve Pain and Save Your Tooth with Root Canal Treatment
The mention of the words “root canal” evokes fear and dread among many patients. In movies and TV, any mention of a root canal is dramatized with painful moans and drawn expressions. Is this dental treatment this bad? As it turns out, root canals (endodontic treatments) receive a bad rep based on unfounded myths and misconceptions. Root canals save millions of smiles every year, and they are painless and straightforward, like tooth fillings.
Strongsville Smile Keepers offers safe and effective root canals in the Strongsville area with your comfort in mind. If you have unbearable toothaches, extreme sensitivity, and other symptoms, schedule an appointment with Dr. Matt Gaebelein for a root canal.
What are the signs I need a root canal?
Fun fact: Did you know your enamel is the hardest part of your body? Yes, it’s true! Your teeth are even stronger than your bones. However, this doesn’t make your teeth impervious to injury and decay.
Corrosive acids, injuries, harmful bacteria, and other factors can damage your enamel, allowing unwanted bacteria to work their way into the pulp chamber, which contains nerves, blood vessels, and other tissues. When your pulp chamber is infected or inflamed, you’ll likely know it because of the following unpleasant symptoms.
- Tooth sensitivity to cold and hot drinks
- Excruciating toothaches, especially when biting into something
- Tooth discoloration (an infected tooth tends to darken)
- Swollen face and gums
- Pimple-like swellings on your gums
When your tooth is infected, you need a root canal to address deep infections within the tooth. Not even antibiotics or your body’s immunity can save your tooth. You need a root canal to flush out the infected pulp to prevent unnecessary tooth pain, possible tooth loss, and widespread infections.
What should I expect from root canal treatment?
We’ll examine your tooth with dental X-rays to determine the extent of damage and whether it’s salvageable with a root canal. If so, we’ll numb your tooth with local anesthetics.
Next, we’ll remove the infected tissues through an access hole created at the top of your tooth. Then, we’ll clean and sanitize the empty chamber and canals to eliminate any traces of harmful bacteria. Your dentist will then fill your hollowed tooth with gutta-percha to prevent future infections.
The final step is to seal the access hole with a dental filling. The dentist often restores your tooth with a dental crown to protect it from cracks or fractures. Your root canal-treated tooth looks and functions like other teeth. With proper care, it can last a lifetime!
Is tooth extraction an option?
If a root canal can save your tooth, don’t think about extraction. Removing your tooth leaves a gap that must be treated with more expensive restorations like implants and bridges.
Ignoring your gap isn’t an option, as this compounds your oral problems. Immediately after losing your tooth, your confidence and oral function will suffer. Gradually, the neighboring teeth start moving, resulting in a misaligned bite and TMJ-related pain.
Save your tooth with a root canal to maintain oral health and prevent tooth loss complications. Root canals are cost-effective, conservative, painless, and more!
Are you ready for a root canal?
We can eliminate toothaches, life-threatening infections, tooth loss, and other complications with a root canal. For more information about root canal treatment in the Strongsville, OH area, call (440) 508-4080 to book a consultation with Strongsville Smile Keepers.
Root canal therapy is a very common procedure. It has a reputation of being undesirable and painful. But when done properly it is actually painless. Every tooth in your mouth is composed of a crown and a root. When a cavity or bacteria penetrates the tooth, the root and its nerves become irritated. As a result, the bacteria within the pulp cavity needs to be removed and cleaned in order to restore the tooth to its healthy state. Following the procedure, the tooth is fragile and consequently is restored with the natural crown for a lifetime of durability. Root canals have a success rate of 95% or greater. Most root canal are diagnosed by patients’ sensitivities to a specific tooth. Be sure to consult your dentist any symptoms or discomfort occur.
