DENTAL TREATMENT
Anyone who has experienced toothache knows that it can be very uncomfortable. A tooth can hurt spontaneously ( like "knocking"), it can on hurt hot or cold, when biting or chewing, on cold air, etc. Sometimes the pain can increase at night, when the person calms down and lies down in a horizontal position.
When do we take a nerve out of a tooth?
The cause of pain can be deep tooth decay or filling if the tooth is alive or a granuloma or abscess if the tooth is dead (these are teeth that do not have a nerve, they turn gray and burst). If the cause of the pain is tooth decay, then over time it spreads to the nerve and infects the area in which it is located. A damaged nerve can react with inflammation that you will surely feel, or with decay that can go away without symptoms.
Root canal treatment is an endodontic procedure that treats a problematic tooth. Machine endodontics is a more modern approach to dental treatment and we are usually faster and more efficient with it. We start the treatment with anesthesia, followed by an opening where we reach the nerve. There are two possible ways to go from there.
The first one is to put "poison" in the tooth, which will kill the inflamed nerve. After 10-14 days the canals are cleaned with needles, rinsed and dried. This removes bacteria and widens the canal enough to fill it. A medication can be placed between the two visits. If there are no symptoms, ie if the tooth does not hurt, fill the canals with gutta-percha sticks and appropriate paste. After filling, the tooth may ache for several days.
Another way is to anesthetize the tooth in one visit, remove the nerve, dilate and fill the canals. It is good to make a control X-ray image to make sure that the canals are filled to the top.
After filling the tooth, it is upgraded with pins or a simple filling is placed. It is recommended to put a crown on a dead or nerveless tooth for 6 months to a year if there are no symptoms or if the tooth is still.
