Root Canal Dental Treatments In Shellharbour
Shellharbour City Dental provides you with a full range of dental treatment options and gives you the information you need to make the best possible decision about your dental needs or emergency dental treatment.
Root canal therapy is an option for teeth that have been damaged from trauma or disease which has started to affect the nerve of a tooth. When the disease has reached the tooth's root canal, the tissues inside the tooth become inflamed, a common cause of toothache. Bacteria can enter the inflamed tissues within the tooth leading to infection of the root canal system and the bone and tissue that support the tooth.
Root Canal Treatment Process
Your dentist will test a tooth if it is suspected that its nerve may have begun this process and advice you on the options for its treatment. Often a tooth with signs or symptoms of inflammation, infection or breakdown of the nerve can be saved by the process of root canal therapy. Root canal therapy is an intricate and precise procedure that aims to clean and disinfect the root canal system and protect the damaged tooth. In most instances, a crown will be recommended following this to help strengthen the tooth and give it the best long term success rate possible.
