What Is ( RCT ) Root Canal Treatment?
How Can I save my damaged tooth? Spending sleepless nights with intolerable tooth pain? Or suffering with a sharp pain in the tooth while having sweet food items? Are you one among who have similar experience of tooth pain? Pain medication or any home remedies will only give you a fast & temporary relief from tooth pain but will not give a permanent solution. Check with your Dentist as early as possible, you might be having a carious tooth. In the initial stages of decay pain will be mild, when infection is in tooth layers, enamel & dentin. If left untreated, it may reach the innermost layer of tooth pulp tissue which has nerve & blood vessels of the tooth causing severe tooth pain.
Root canal treatment (RCT) or nerve treatment is the only permanent option to save a carious tooth involving pulp. In olden days, whenever tooth decay reaches tooth pulp and causing severe pain, removal of tooth is the treatment option followed. But with RCT, a badly decayed or worn out or fractured or dead tooth can be restored & saved. It is very conservative procedure which saves the natural tooth. RCT is a painless procedure, prior to treatment dentist will numb the tooth. An opening is made from top of the tooth to reach pulp chamber through which infected and unhealthy pulp is removed out of root canals. The canals are cleaned & shaped using special files. Prior to filling the canals are well irrigated to clean and remove debris from the infected tooth. A permanent inert rubber material (gutta-percha cones) used to fill the canals to keep them free of infection & fill the dead space. A permanent filling material is placed on top of guttapercha to seal the opening of tooth. In some cases of badly damaged teeth, a metal or fiber post is placed into the root next to gutta-percha which gives extra support to crown. The root canal treated tooth is trimmed to construct an artificial hollow cap or dental crown which resembles a natural tooth and cemented over it to prevent fracture. With the advance technology like Lasers, CBCT and Microscopy has given new wings for RCT to save the complex cases of tooth damage and prevent the failures.