What is the root canal therapy?

      Known as the "pumping of nerve”, root canal therapy is the treatment of dental pulp disease (common for toothache) and periapical disease (commonly manifested as gingival swelling), it is the most commonly used and effective method of teeth treatment.

      The principle of root canal treatment is to remove the infected material in the teeth root canal by mechanical or chemical methods, through the filling of root canal, closed crown, prevent the occurrence of apical periodontitis or promote the healing of periodontal lesions.

      How many times for root canal treatment?

      Root canal therapy is a complex, complete and thorough treatment process. Affected by the disease, treatment difficulty and other factors, root canal treatment usually requires 1-3 times to complete, the specific number of visits required by the doctor to determine the condition after the specific inspection. If you need to return, usually two weeks at a time. Root canal therapy should be timely referral, to avoid sealing time is too long, drug failure or shedding caused by root canal infection again. If happens, it not only increases the number of treatment, prolonged treatment, also may bring difficulties to the treatment, and even lead to the failure of root canal therapy.

      What should pay attention to after root canal treatment?

      Because of the difficulty of root canal treatment, patients' personal health condition is also different, so in the process of root canal treatment, sometimes there will be varying degrees of postoperative reaction, such as slight pain or swelling of the teeth. Usually after the root canal treatment response, are temporary, generally can return to normal. If the pain or swelling is serious, you need to ask the doctor for further diagnosis and treatment.

      The root canal after the treatment period should avoid biting teeth, because the teeth crown defects is larger, can not withstand the large bite force, once biting splitting can lead to tooth extraction.

      After root canal treatment, because the residual tooth body is less, if possible, suggest doing tooth root canal therapy to repair the missing tooth crown, so as to avoid excessive occlusal force caused by splitting teeth removed.
  
  
  

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