With the rapid development of society, a tremendous improvement has been seen in terms of clothing, food, accommodation and transportation, especially in food. Now food enjoys a wonderful flavor as well as an attractive appearance, which is a temptation that most people cannot resist. It seems that everyone likes to eat a lot but not clean a lot, causing the occurrence of tooth decay. For most people, they don’t pay enough attention to tooth decay at the very beginning until it deteriorates into a severe one. Dentists will suggest a root canal treatment, for the sake of saving whichever tooth that can be saved.

Root canal treatment is an effective way for treating pulposis and periapical disease, being most commonly adopted around the world. It restores the tooth with gutta-percha filling and a crown after removing infected pulp by mechanical and chemical methods, to prevent periapical disease or promote healings of the happened periapical disease.

Why do we need a root canal treatment?

When a root canal treatment is adapted, the tooth decay definitely is severe enough to damage the pulp tissues. Over time it will progress into pulpitis. If you leave your tooth decay untreated, bacterial will not let go of you tooth until the root is completely eroded and cause tooth loss. Our teeth is meant to be a integral whole. So do you have any idea about the how bad the influence will be if there is a loss tooth？

It would be naïve for the thought that a loss tooth means the end of the story. As time goes by, the two adjacent teeth of the loss one will gradually lean to the gap, resulting in crowded teeth. Then it will be easier for teeth to trap food and more difficult to be cleaned thoroughly, leaving teeth more susceptible to decay. It turns out to be a vicious circle. Implant tooth is a proper but expensive treatment for avoiding such situations. Therefore, dentists will recommend a root canal treatment for severe tooth decay.

Advantages of root canal treatment

1. It helps to remain the integrity of natural teeth alignment and to prevent the shift of adjacent teeth as well as the occurrence of tooth decay and periodontal disease. It can prevent the excessive loss of supportive sclerotin after tooth extraction which will have adverse impact on facial profile and the stability of dental prosthesis. In addition, it avoid difficulties in fabricating dental prosthesis because it remain the alignment.

2. It avoids the malocclusion caused by an early tooth extraction, and thus avoids the troubles of orthodontics.

3. As for those suffering from some systemic diseases, like congenital heart disease, diabetes, tuberculosis, hemophilia, pernicious anemia, leukemia, high blood pressure and syphilis, etc., root canal treatment would be a safer choice.

4. It costs less. Since it can help natural teeth maintain an integral and biologically proper state, it will free adjacent teeth from the abnormal pressure for supporting the dental prosthesis. Of course, it will also save the money of fabricating dental prosthesis.

How long will the tooth undergone a root canal treatment serve?

Implant tooth would be the last choice adapted by dentists who will try their best to save whichever tooth that can be saved at first. Why do it need a crown after root canal treatment? It is not that dentists want to earn more money from you. If they do, they can just ask you to conduct dental implant. In root canal treatment, it requires to cut off the connection with dental nerve, which means the loss of nutrition source for your teeth. Then the tooth will become fragile and apt to crack. Making a crown serves to protect your fragile tooth. Actually every dentist will not give you an guarantee about the serving time of the tooth undergone treatment, in that it largely depends on yourself.

Why? First of all, materials and dentists’ skills count a lot. It is suggested that you should seek treatment in a professional hospital which enjoys both better materials and professional dentists. In addition, it depends on your maintenance for the tooth. Have you kept a decent oral hygiene? Have you avoided chewing hard food by it? Have you follow dentists’ advice strictly? If you have done what is mentioned above, your tooth after root canal treatment will indeed serve for a long time.

In brief, go to hospital for a regular checkup, so as to solve the problem at the very beginning of its occurrence and save you the subsequent troubles. If a root canal treatment is needed conducting, then do it in a professional hospital. Although its serving time depends on yourself, a better foundation also counts a lot. 

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