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Root canal tReatment in Pune

Root Canals are most commonly a painless procedure (more than 90% to be precise, at Smilekraft Dentistry) that will preserve your tooth and keep the structure from becoming damaged due to infection or trauma. In a nutshell, a root canal is actually your tooth saviour. The name Root Canal comes from the fact that the treatment is of the root part of the tooth, and more specifically, in the canal part of the root where the nerve, blood vessels, and connective tissue of the tooth reside.

To understand this endodontic treatment, it helps to know something about the anatomy of a tooth. Inside the tooth, under the white enamel and a hard layer called dentin, is a soft tissue called the pulp. The pulp contains blood vessels, nerves, and connective tissue and extends from the crown of the tooth to the tip of the roots where it connects to the tissues surrounding the root. This pulp is important during the tooth's growth and development. In a fully developed tooth, it remains as a remnant of the soft tissue that initiated the tooth development

Later in life, its only function is to cause pain when something goes wrong. Thus, it acts like an alarm system which may or may not work but is not necessary for the tooth. Thus, once the tooth is fully mature, it can survive without the pulp because the tooth continues to be nourished by the tissues surrounding it, viz. gums and the bone. And that is the fact and the principle on which the procedure and success of our treatment resides.

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When do you need a root canal treatment?

Simply put, if you want to save your tooth and use it for a lifetime without any problem, then a root canal treatment is the best bet for the diseased tooth.

We may perform the root canal treatment if:

You are suffering from extreme and continuous sensitivity to hot or cold foods.

You have pain in a tooth which may or may not be continuous.

You have a swelling around or below a tooth.

You want a severely decayed tooth (with or without pain) to be restored to normal good health.

There is a traumatized, broken or discoloured tooth to be treated.

You want to align a severely malposed tooth with a cap or a crown.

Once the root canal is complete, the main functional restorative procedures for the tooth start. While a root canal treatment helps in saving your tooth by cleaning off the infection in it, it does not give the tooth the necessary strength to sustain your biting and chewing forces to last a lifetime. To give your tooth that necessary strength, we start by doing a core filling that replaces the part of the tooth that was lost due to decay. Then the tooth is prepared by giving it a shape to receive a covering even harder than your own tooth called a cap or a crown.