Root canal treatment (RCT) Info for patients
What are the factors leading to Root canal Treatment ?
The pulp is soft tissue inside your tooth that has nerves, blood vessels and provides nutrients for your tooth. It can become infected if you have :
Is root canal treatment painful ?
Root Canal Treatment or Endodontic Therapy is done to get rid of dental pain. It is not painful neither does it hurt you.
It is done under Local Anaesthasia. the mild pain you get during treatment is during removal of infected tissue but nowadays due to advancements in root canal treatment protocols even that pain does not occur.
What’s Involved in Root canal Treatment (RCT) ?
In this procedure, an access cavity is made, decayed pulpal tissue (blood vessels & nerves) is removed, root canals are cleaned with files and properly sterilised with suitable medicaments like sodium hypochlorite.
What happens if we dont do root canal therapy ?
If it is left without any treatment, the tissues around the root of your tooth may become infected. If this happens , you will often feel pain and swelling and an abscess may form inside the tooth and/or in the bone around the end of the root of the tooth.
An infection can also put you at risk of losing your tooth completely because bacteria can damage the bone that keeps your tooth connected to your jaw.[1]
What are the tips for care after Root canal treatment ?
After the treatment, the tooth is likely to last for a long time. However, that is only possible with good tooth care.Listed below are ways of caring for the tooth after treatment
1. Practice good oral hygiene - Floss your teeth every day and brush them twice in a day. This prevents future dental infections.
2.Visiting the dentists regularly - This will grant you access to expert teeth cleaning.
3. Avoid chewing hard foods - Chewing hard and cold foods can lead to a breaking of teeth.
If after root canal treatment has been performed a tooth still has bacteria or irritants leading to inflammation of surrounding tissue, then the treatment has not been successful.
What are signs of failed Root Canal Treatment?
Some of the signs of failed root canal treatment can include tooth pain (ranging from very mild to extreme) and swelling in the gums in the area near the tooth (ranging from very slight to pronounced). These signs can either:
1. Persist from the time of the root canal treatment.
2. Be transient (varying week to week or month to month.
3. Appear even though the tooth has been asymptomatic for years.
In other cases a tooth may continues to be, without symptoms but the tissues surrounding the tooth are identified as having the presence of persistent inflammation by way of a radiological examination by a dentist.
In these cases, if retreatment is not a possibility, then the tooth should be extracted
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