What is a root canal?
Each tooth has live nerve tissue in it that helps in the formation of the tooth root. At times the nerve can be traumatized which will result in death of the tissue and subsequent bacterial infection. A root canal will remove the infected tissue and replace the void with a filling material that allows you to keep the tooth. Today root canals are predictable and done without pain. If a choice is given between saving or extracting a tooth, I would opt out for saving it. A root canal can give you this option.
The pulp is soft tissue that contains the veins, arteries, nerves and lymph vessels belonging to your tooth. Pulp is located under your tooth’s outer enamel and within the dentin. Root canals can be described as small and thin divisions that branch from the top pulp chamber and continue to the root.
A root canal is a procedure done to save the damaged or dead pulp in the root canal of the tooth by cleaning out the diseased pulp and reshaping the canal. The canal is filled with gutta percha, a rubber like material, to prevent recontamination of the tooth. The tooth is then permanently protected with a gold or porcelain crown. This enables patients to save their tooth.
Underneath your tooth’s outer enamel and within the dentin is an area of soft tissue called the pulp, which carries the tooth’s nerves, veins, arteries and lymph vessels. Root canals are very small, thin divisions that branch off from the top pulp chamber down to the tip of the root. A tooth has at least one but no more than four root canals.
