Root Canal Treatment (Microscopic Endodontics)

Root canal (endodontic) treatment is carried out when the soft tissue inside a tooth — the pulp, which contains the nerve and blood vessels — becomes irreversibly inflamed or infected, usually because of deep decay, a crack or trauma. Rather than removing the tooth, the treatment cleans the infection from inside it, allowing the natural tooth to be kept. It is the standard way to relieve the severe ache of an abscessed or dying tooth while preserving the…

At Dental Corner endodontic treatment is performed under a dental microscope, which magnifies and illuminates the inside of the tooth so the clinician can find every canal — including the narrow, curved or extra canals that are easy to miss — and clean them thoroughly. After numbing the tooth with computer-controlled anaesthesia, the dentist removes the inflamed pulp, shapes and disinfects the canal system and fills it with a sealing material; X-rays from…