A Dentist for the Inner Tooth

Although you haven't taken the utmost care of your teeth, you still expect to be able to walk into your dentist's office and receive a clear bill of health, right? Well, you at least expect the same speech about paying more attention to your back teeth, flossing, watching the acids and coffee and switching your toothpaste. However, there comes a time when the prolonged problems on the surface and just below the gum line can eat away at your teeth through chips, cracks and cavities, to end up infecting the pulp and root of your tooth or multiple teeth. This doesn't cause the sudden jolt of pain when you drink something very cold or very hot. No, this is that throbbing migraine of infection within your tooth that occasionally spreads down into your jaw, which makes it difficult to talk, eat, work, or even sleep comfortably. All of this agony can go on for hours until you give in and go to see an emergency dentist, or you knew that your general practitioner warned you this might happen before your scheduled root canal and root extraction for two very advanced cavities. So, for those who don't go to the emergency dentist in the meantime, you wait the week until your scheduled endodontic appointment with pain killers and tooth nerve numbing solution on the area.

Depending upon the degree of your infection and loss, you may require one of several types of dental surgery. Endodontic specialty is indeed one of those areas. With an endodontist's tools, he or she can provide you with the two-part, first stage root canal. In step one a pulpotomy is performed so that the root infection is allowed to drain. In the second step, pulectomy can also be used to also alleviate pain by removing the inner tissue of the tooth known as the pulp. This brings us to the actual root canal procedure which is used by the dentist to repair and save the tooth chamber after the infection has been removed. However, when a root canal is not enough to end the pain of infection an apicoectomy is used to remove the end of the root of the tooth as well. This procedures aids in the prevention of further spread of infection and any further pain.

When an infection gets into the pulp and root of the tooth, it can cause serious and permanent damage to the nerves and jaw bone. Your teeth are precious aspects of oral health, but you cannot afford to compromise your nerves and jaw without ending your ability to carry a tooth in that spot or chew comfortably in the future. Therefore, the goal of the dentist is always to prevent as much loss as possible. If this means extracting a part of a tooth, the pulp of a tooth, the root end, the entire tooth and some of the surrounding gums, the end result should be healthier teeth, gums, and jaw bone as a result.