Give a description of Root Canal treatment of teeth?
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Root canals are the long passages full of soft tissue deep within the dentin of a tooth, adjoined the pulp chamber. In dentistry, a pulpectomy is an endodontic treatment to cure an infection of the root canal; informally a root canal. A root canal, coupled with internal tooth bleaching, is also used to fix teeth that have blackened due to infiltration of decayed soft tissue into the dentin in the teeth, most often seen in frontal incisors that have been injured through a sudden impact.\n\nAt the center of a tooth is a hollow area that houses soft tissue, known as pulp. This hollow area contains a relatively wide space towards the chewing surface of the tooth called the pulp chamber. This pulp chamber is connected to the tip of the root of the tooth via thin hollow pipe-like canals—hence, the term "root canal". Human teeth normally have one to four canals; teeth toward the back have the most canals. These canals run through the centre of the roots like pencil lead runs through the length of a pencil. The tooth receives nutrition through the blood vessels and nerves traversing these canals. Occasionally, a cavity on the outside of the tooth may allow this soft tissue to become infected. If left untreated a serious jaw infection can result. The infection and inflammation is very painful in most cases. Ideally treatment should take place before this happens.\n\nTo cure the infection and save the tooth, it is necessary for the dentist to open into the pulp chamber, and remove the infected pulp by scraping it out of the root canals. Once that is done, the dentist fills the cavity with an inert material, usually Gutta-percha, and seals up the opening. This procedure is known as root canal therapy. If enough of the tooth is damaged by the disease or removed as a result of the treatment, a crown may be required.
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THIS PREPARATION INTO THE TOOTH PRIOR TO ROOT CANAL TREATMENT USUALLY TAKES THE SHAPE OF AN OVAL WITH THE NARROW PART OF THE SHAPE POINTING TOWARD THE BUCCAL AND TOWARDS THE LINGUAL.SEE THE LINK:\nAccess Preparation on Maxillary Premolars\n\nThe secret of gaining access to maxillary premolar pulp chambers is to first outline the cavosurface margin limits and then to proceed from there toward the pulp with burs whose long axes are directed toward the center of the root at the CEJ level.\n\nThe cavosurface outline of the access opening should reflect the cross-sectional shape of the underlying root and pulp chamber and is therefore oval in shape with the narrowest dimension of the oval being M-D. (Fig. 8). \n\nThis M-D dimension should be just large enough so that the head of a #6 round bur will just wedge into the center of the oval, but not rotate, when placed with the fingers (about 2 mm). \nCaution: Use of a #6 bur to cut the preparation will result in too wide an access outline. \n\nThe B-L dimension of the access is determined by points one-half way up the buccal and lingual cusp ridges from the central groove as determined by viewing from directly over the occlusal surface. It may be helpful to mark the limits of your outline form on the tooth in pencil before beginning.\n\nUsing a #701 bur whose long axis is held parallel to the long axis of the tooth, penetrate the enamel into dentin in the central groove area and then extend your cavosurface outline out to your previously determined limits. Place the floor of this prep about 1 mm below DEJ in the central groove area (Fig. 9). Then change to a long shank #2 round bur and penetrate from your initial access preparation toward the pulp chamber in a conical fashion\n\n\n  \n\n\nThe longer shank bur gets the handpiece head back away from the occlusal surface so that you get better visibility and it allows you to see more of the bur shank to help line it up with the center of the tooth. The angulation of the bur as you proceed toward the chamber is critical. As you can see in Fig. 10, maxillary premolars are considerably narrower M-D at the CEJ level than they are at the occlusal surface. The chamber lies in the center of the crown at CEJ level. Your objective is to make the center of the tooth at CEJ level your target as you penetrate with the bur. Use your perio probe to determine the mesial, distal, buccal and lingual aspects of the root at the CEJ level. It may be helpful until you get more experience to place pencil marks in the center of the root on the buccal and lingual at the CEJ level to use them as guidelines as you penetrate toward the chamber. You will be aiming for the center of an imaginary line connecting these two marks (Fig. 11). Remember, the angulation of your bur shank must be controlled in two dimensions, M-D and B-L (Fig. 10). It takes very little deviation from this path, particularly in the M-D plane to result in considerable gouging and even crown perforation (Fig. 12).\n\n\n  \nFigure 11. View of occlusal surface with outline of root structure at CEJ level superimposed. "X" is your target. Figure 12. Gouging and perforation of crown. \n\n\nDue to the narrow M-D width of many maxillary premolar pulp chambers, you may not get the sensation of falling into the chamber with the bur. Therefore, as you approach the level at which you expect the chamber to be, you should frequently check the base of your prep with the endo explorer to see if it will drop into the chamber due to its fine point or will give you resistance to withdrawal (binds or a "tacky" feeling) because its tip is wedging into a small opening in some aspect of the chamber.\n\n\nIt is desirable to estimate the depth at which you expect to encounter the pulp. A good way to do this is to measure on the radiograph the distance from a cusp tip to the pulp chamber and then set this length on your endo explorer with a silicone stop. When placed to the depth of your preparation
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Root canal therapy refers to the process by which a dentist treats the inner aspects of a tooth, specifically that area inside a tooth that is occupied by its "pulp tissue." Most people would probably refer to a tooth's pulp tissue as its "nerve." While a tooth's pulp tissue does contain nerve fibers it is also composed of arteries, veins, lymph vessels, and connective tissue.
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Go here...\n\nhttp://www.naturallist.com/teeth.htm
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Unfortunately, there is quite a precedent for instruments fracturing in root canals during such therapy. While it is all well and good to call in the law enforcement to deal with such a situation, the first thing I would be considering would be to get some pain relief. \nWhile opioid analgesics are good to dull the pain, they do not act act the source of pain. Anti-inflammatories, such as ibuprofen, sometimes even combined with opioids, can produce much more relief than opioids on their own. Root canal treatment, successful or otherwise, can be quite painful for a few days after the event. In the vast vast majority of cases, it can be resolved with simple pain relief.\nOnce the pain has resolved, it is time to take stock of what has occurred. If the tooth is pain free and you can eat and do whatever you like with the tooth, the dentist was probaly correct in saying that the file was sterile and it has sealed the canal. If the tooth does not resolve its pain issues, then we must consider plan B.\nRemoval of a root filling and retreating a root canal treated tooth is not an easy thing to do. It is often done by root canal specialists who see this sort of thing every day. The major concern here is that after everything that has gone before it, is the tooth able to undergo retreatment. It may be too weak, or the file may have caused some serious damage to the root itself. This is evidenced by continued pain from this tooth over a longer period of time, rather than just a few days. You may have to entertain the possiblilty of losing that tooth.\nIf this is the case, consider speaking to your dentist about some form of compensation. This may not be monetary, but it may involve crediting the money spent on the root canal towards a replacement for the tooth lost. If the dentist is not forthcoming, then a complaint to the relevant dental authorities is appropriate. Lawyers are only after your money, and while they may produce a financial result, the time wasted in legal process, etc, benefits nobody but the lawyers themselves.\nI hope you have some success here. It is an unfortunate event, and one I hope can be resolved simply. Get out of pain best you can first, and then make your decisions.
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That is the beginning of fixing it.  In addition to having the root canal done, you are also going to need to have a crown placed.  Then your tooth will be as good as new.  :)
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Most likely you'll need a root canal and a crown, assuming you have enough healthy tooth left to work with.  Pretty pricey, but once the root canal is completed your pain is over.  Extraction is always the cheapest option, but hopefully you won't have to go that route.\n\nOut of curiosity, what does oil of cloves accomplish, other than giving you wicked clove breath?  Does it actually do anything to dull the pain?
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A tooth location would be helpful.
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1)root canal therapy\n2)post & core build up(if needed)(this one is in casei if your tooth is so damaged.)\n3)make a new crown
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For you, probably the root canal is best. It doesn't seem likely that you could endure the pain of contrary points of view.
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It's a million-dollar question and answer!  There are currently a lot of researches on this subject.\n\nMost of the dentists currently agree that the is the most predominant bacteria in teeth with failed root canal therapy    is Enterococcus faecalis (gram negative, anaerobic).  This bacteria evolves and and is found to survive harsh conditions prevailing in the root canals of endodontically treated teeth.  Scientists believe that E. faecalis has the ability  to form calcified bio-film on root canal dentine.\n\nBesides physically cleaning the canal with the dental files, dentists use 2 main chemicals to treat or disinfect the root canal.  They are 17 percent ethylene-diamine-tetra-acetate (EDTA)and 2.5 percent sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl). Recently, laser is also recommended as another method for sterilizing the canal.\n\nBroad spectrum antibiotics such as tetracycline and clindamycine are also very effective in controlling infection surrounding the root canal (apical pathology). Occasionally, at the last resort of trying to save the tooth, apicoectomy and root amputation are necessary to get rid of these persistent bateria and infection.
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That took me a while to figure out..... Rhizotomy!\n\nrhizotomy - surgical procedure in which spinal nerve roots are cut\n\nAnterior roots- to relieve intractable pain\nPosterior roots - to stop severe muscle spasms\n\nThe nerve roots can also be destroyed by chemical or radiofrequency means.
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If you really enjoy root canals you will enjoy trying to fix a stick of RAM.  :-)\n\nIf you bought it from a reputable company like Crucial, Kingston, PNY, Kahlon, or even a chain store like Best Buy, Circuit City, etc, the RAM will have a lifetime warranty.  Just get it replaced and don't go through the pain and agony of that root canal...... er, I mean that RAM repair.
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Root canal treatment often requires one or two visits.  In my practice, the root canal that is done in one visit is likely to induce some post-op pain.\n\nThe most common cause for the post-op pain is the temporary filling is too high.  When you were anesthetized, you could not tell whether the temporary filling is high.  When the numbness wears out, if you bite down and it's hurt, then it is likely that the temporary filling is the cause.\n\nOther reasons include: root fracture, allergic or immunological reaction to root canal filler (gutta purcha), foreign material response, and incomplete removal of the sensory nerve.\n\nWhat you need to do is first to phone your dentist to see if   he or she can prescribe you some antibiotics (such as amoxil) and steroids (decadron).  You can take about 400mg of ibuprofen (advil, motrin) every 4-6 hours in addition to the Vicodins to alleviate pain.  Make appointment to see your dentist if the symptom is not abated within 24 hours.\n\nTo further reduce pain and swelling, rinse three times daily with warm salt water (a teaspoon of salt in a cup of warm water). To safeguard the tooth and help keep your temporary filling or crown in place, avoid eating sticky or hard foods (especially gum), and if possible, chew ONLY on the opposite side of your mouth. It's important to resume to brush normally, but floss very carefully. To prevent ejection of the temporary filling, remove the floss by pulling it through the teeth, not down or up from between the space between teeth.
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none of them. you should see a dentist and in order to take the source of the infection out. which means you probably need a root canal therapy.\nbut generally when you want to make salt water you should half of tea spoon full of salt in a glass of warm water.
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I have recently had root treatment on two seperate teeth, I ended up having to get one of them out!! a week later ,so I say no , just ask for extraction , Dentists say they are trying to save our teeth but in fact are making a huge ammount of money from unsuspecting patients, who are usually at their wits end with pain when they visit the dentist in the first place, that they will agree to anything the god like dentist is suggesting !!
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1st try in Yahoo search and this what I've found\n\nhttp://dentalresource.org/