Root Canal Treatment

Root canal treatment removes infected pulp from inside a tooth, cleans and disinfects the inner canals, fills them with a rubbery material (gutta-percha), and seals the tooth, often with a crown, to save it from extraction, relieving pain and preventing reinfection, with modern techniques making it a routine, relatively painless procedure.

Key Benefits

• Keeping your tooth helps maintain proper alignment of your other teeth, preventing jaw problems.
• Saving a natural tooth avoids having to replace it with an artificial tooth, such as an implant.

However, teeth should only be treated with a root canal if there is enough of the tooth structure to restore them, otherwise they should be extracted.