Protecting dental care with the best care.

A person’s teeth are meant to last a lifetime. If the teeth have been exposed to a disease or a trauma the dentist may recommend a Root Canal Treatment as an option to save the tooth. The best to save oneself from the trauma is early diagnosis. Most patients that come to us come when the issue is in its severity stage. This however is preventive with yearly dental checks.

At Purple Jar Dental Care, our Specialist Endodontists ensure high quality treatments to our patients. Advances in technology, the use of microscopes and other high-tech instruments, have meant that processes in the field of Endodontics have changed enormously over the recent years. Nowadays, Root canals have more than 92% success rate. In most cases it is completely painless and generally comfortable for the patient.

To explain further a root canal treatment is a routine dental procedure needed when the blood or nerve supply of the tooth (known as the pulp) is infected through decay or injury. You may not feel any pain in the early stages of the infection. In some cases, your tooth could darken in colour, which may mean that the nerve of the tooth has died (or is dying). The symptoms can range from a dull ache to severe pain and the tooth may be tender when you bite. This would need root canal treatment.

The aim of the treatment is to remove all infection from the root canal. The root is then cleaned and filled to prevent any further infection. With dental advances and local anesthetics, most people have little if any pain with a root canal. In fact, it’s probably more painful living with a decayed tooth. As a dead tooth is more brittle, it is usually necessary to restore the tooth with a crown to provide extra support and strength to the tooth after the root canal is completed.

Root canal treatment is a skilled and time-consuming procedure. Most of treatment will involve two or more visits to your dentist. Our doctors and staff are determined to ensure a warm and friendly Endodontic experience.

How is a root canal treatment done?

1. The dentist gives you a local anesthetic (freezing).

2. To protect your tooth from bacteria in your saliva during the treatment, the dentist places a rubber dam around the tooth being treated.

3. The dentist makes an opening in the tooth to reach the root canal system and the damaged pulp.

4. Using very fine dental instruments, the dentist removes the pulp by cleaning and enlarging the root canal system.

5. After the canal has been cleaned, the dentist fills and seals the canal.

6. The opening of the tooth is then sealed with either a temporary or permanent filling.

Root Canal – Deep Infection

Route to the canal

Cleaning and Shaping of the canals

Filling the canal

Extra support

Post endodontic crown