Root Canals - Whangarei

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Preparation For A Dental Root Canal Treatment

your dentist will be able to show you a clear picture of the tooth's root canal with an X-ray.

Root canal treatment will usually require a local anaesthetic that numbs your infected tooth and the gum around it.

In cases where the tooth has died, there may no longer be sensitivity; in this case, local anaesthetic may not be necessary.

Removing the affected tooth pulp
A rubber sheet (dam) is placed around the tooth to avoid contamination and keep it dry during the treatment process.

Your tooth will be opened through the crown, drilling down, to access the soft pulp tissue in the centre of the tooth to remove the infected pulp.

Preparation For A Dental Root Canal Treatment

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Preparation For A Dental Root Canal Treatment

Root Canal Preparation For A Dental Crown

Suppose a dental abscess causes an infection, swelling. The infected pus-filled area needs to be drained by the dentist.

Preparing, cleaning and re-filling the tooth's root canal.
First, the infected pulp is removed. Next, the root canal is cleaned and enlarged using a series of tiny root canal files to widen the channels and make them a regular shape to be filled with a sealant or root canal sealing that prevents reinfection later.

Because Root-filled teeth are more brittle than healthy teeth, a crown is usually fitted on the tooth to strengthen it.

Tooth whitening When A Root Canal Treatment Causes A Darkened Tooth

In some cases, after a tooth has had a root canal treatment, the root-filled tooth may become darkened; in this case, to treat discolouration, such as tooth whitening using chemicals can be carried out, or the tooth fitted with a ceramic crown.

A crown is a cap over the natural tooth. It is often the case to fit a crown/cap after a root canal procedure to strengthen and prevent tooth fracturing.

Tooth whitening When A Root Canal Treatment Causes A Darkened Tooth

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Tooth whitening When A Root Canal Treatment Causes A Darkened Tooth

Dental Crowns materials Porcelain Or Ceramic?

Dental crowns materials can vary:

metal
porcelain
ceramic
powdered glass

The tooth mould or a high definition scan of your tooth to design and create the right size and shaped dental crown that fits your tooth accurately.

If there's a minimal amount of tooth left after the root canal, a metal post is cemented in the root canal to keep the crown in place.

Apicoectomy When Root Canal Treatments Fail

Root canal treatment is a good option for saving a tooth that otherwise extracted can usually last around eight to ten years. However, with a crown fitted, life expectancy is increased significantly.

Factors for extended tooth life:

how much original tooth remains
Oral hygiene keeping your teeth clean
Bite force on the tooth

If the tooth gets re-infected, the root canal treatment may need to be redone. In some cases, with an infection at the tip of the root assuming the previous root canal has been carried out to a high standard, a procedure to remove the root tip and fill it called an apicoectomy can be used to treat the infected failed root canal.

Apicoectomy When Root Canal Treatments Fail

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Apicoectomy When Root Canal Treatments Fail

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Cracked Tooth & Root Canals - Whangarei

When a Crack in the Tooth goes into the Nerve A Root Canal treatment, I required Before Dental Crown.

What we usually do with a cracked tooth is crown it with a ceramic dental crown. However, if the crack goes to the centre of the Tooth's nerve, then the Tooth will require a root canal treatment before we put the dental cap on the Tooth of the dental crown on Tooth.

The root canal treatment removes the nerve and fills the nerve cavity with material that prevents infection in the Tooth.

Cracked Tooth & Root Canals - Whangarei