Infection and subsequent inflammation are a common cause of toothache. The patient cannot chew food normally or drink cold and hot beverages, and in very severe cases this leads to a significant deterioration in quality of life. Root canal treatment is usually required in cases of advanced pulpitis. Pain relief at the dental clinic is carried out in several stages.
How root canal treatment is performed
Patients need to undergo several procedures.
- Diagnostics. The patient undergoes an X-ray examination, which helps determine how deeply the infection has penetrated and how severely the tooth is damaged. In some people, root canals have a non-standard, curved shape, and without a preliminary examination it would be difficult for the specialist to clean the cavities.
- The next stage is the removal of inflamed and damaged tissues, which is performed under local anesthesia. It is important to completely clean the pulp chamber; otherwise, bacteria remaining in the canal will cause repeated inflammation.
- After completing the work, the doctor prepares the tooth for filling and performs the procedure. During the preparation stage, the depth of the canal is measured with an apex locator and the obtained data is compared with X-ray images. Since the walls of the root canals must hold the filling material well, they are additionally treated with special instruments. Filling materials can be hardening materials, such as cement, or non-hardening materials. The former are needed to protect the tooth, while the latter are used to completely fill the cleaned root canals. There must be no empty spaces in the canals.
If the patient has severe toothache, the doctor may place a temporary filling for a certain period of time and only then perform the final filling. During this procedure, thorough disinfection is carried out in order to completely destroy microbes in the root canal. It is known that bacteria living in the oral cavity are very aggressive and, if the root canals are not treated completely, they can provoke a recurrence of inflammation.
We offer this service — professional endodontics in Riga. After treatment, you will forget about toothache for many years. To prevent recurrence, specialists comply with all requirements provided by the root canal treatment technique.