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Issue #5, March 2017
WHAT IS A
ROOT CANAL TREATMENT?
What is root canal
treatment and why do we
need it? What are the benefits of
endodontic treatment? Root Canal Treatment
consists of:
Endodontic treatment saves teeth that The removal of the infected or irritated
Your dentist may have suggested to would otherwise need to be extracted. nerve tissue that lies within the root of
Saving your natural teeth, if possible, is the tooth. It is this infected pulp tissue
the best option. that causes an eventual abscess.
An extraction is truly the last resort! The first step in a root canal is to
you that Root Canal Therapy (otherwise
known as Endodontics) was needed
for a particular tooth. Although you
may have been briefed about some of
the facts concerning the procedures
involved in root canal therapy, you
would like some more information.
Earlier, a badly infected tooth, or one
that just had significant decay, was
doomed to be extracted. Today, the
majority of these teeth c