Root Canal Treatment is a procedure to relieve dental pain and save your teeth.

The pulp can be infected or inflamed due to either deep decay or an extensive restoration that involves the pulp, cracked or fractured tooth due to trauma, excessive wear of enamel and dentine exposing the pulp, and sometimes as a result of severe gum disease.

Root Canal Treatment involves use of local anaesthetic agent so the procedure is comfortable and painless, then drilling a small access hole on the surface of the tooth followed by removing the diseased and dead pulp tissue with small files and filling the root canal.

Most root canal treatments will require at least 2-3 visits to the dentist.

After root canal therapy, the tooth is dead. You will no longer feel any pain in that tooth because the nerve tissue has been removed, and the infection has been eliminated.

Placement of a permanent crown to restore tooth function is the ultimate result.