Saving your Teeth with Root Canal Treatment Your tooth is opened, then your root canal is cleaned and shaped Cleaning and shaping your root canals First, your dentist makes an opening in your tooth and removes any fillings and decay. Then your dentist removes unhealthy pulp with tiny, flexible, files. Using delicate, up-and-down motions, your dentist gently cleans and smoothens your canals to prepare them for the canal-filling materials. Your root canal is filled with dental materials such as gutta-percha and may be covered with a temporary filling. Filling your root canals After the pulp has been removed from your root canals and they have been smoothened, your root canals will be filled. Your dentist may fill the canals with tiny cone-shaped pieces of gutta-percha, a firm, rubber like material, or use another dental material. A sealer cement is used to seal the filling material into place. A post supports your tooth Restoring your Tooth After the inside of your tooth has been treated, the outside will be restored. To protect your tooths underlying structures and give your tooth a healthy appearance, and if your tooth needs extra support, your dentist may remove some gutta-percha and insert a post before the filling and crown are applied. A post, stainless steel or another metal, is sometimes cemented into your root canal to build up your tooth after root canal therapy. A filling, usually silver or a tooth-coloured dental material, may be used to fill the opening in the top of your tooth. A crown, usually gold or porcelain, may be used to cover a tooth that has a large opening after root canal therapy. The success rates for Root Canal Therapy have been reported to be as high as 95%. At Aggarwal Dental Clinic , RCT is done using Protaper and profile instruments. In most of the cases single sitting treatment is done except for infected cases in which two or three sittings are given. A prior appointment will be most comfortable for you as well as for us.
Posted on: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 10:57:40 +0000
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