Root Canal Treatment / Endodontic Therapy

How exciting, another dental treatment I have done myself AND been subjected to! In my dental centre, Root canal treatment (RCT or endodontics) is done for one of two reasons. The first is "Traumatic exposure" where one of my patients has broken a tooth and the nerve is exposed. This is fairly rare (I've done it twice in three years) in my experience, and often we can treat the tooth so that we don't have to remove the nerve. The other reason we do it is when a patient presents with Chronic Pulpitis, periapical periodontitis, or a periapical abscess (can be acute or chronic). These conditions are usually caused by dental decay but can be caused ...  Read the complete review

I've not been very good recently. I let my dentist appointments lapse, while pregnant I couldn't face letting anyone near my mouth as he morning sickness would have made me gag, and after pregnancy I was just so busy. That meant that it had been 3 years since Id been to the dentist and things got to a horrible stage. I got an intense pain in one tooth in particular. I took paracetemol and eventually I had to admit defeat when I had my Caesarean Section and found that my toothache was hurting more than the Wound from my operation was! When I got out of hospital I had to re-register with a new dentist as I had lost my NHS dentist from having waited so long and after 4 ...  Read the complete review

When I found out that I needed to have a root canal treatment I nearly had a heart attack. I hate anything to do with needles and having had no surgery whatsoever, I am absolutely petrified of the thought of undergoing any procedure whether it's major or minor. However the most important reason for not liking the whole root canal idea was that I absolutely hate the dentist! I know for a fact that I'm not alone when I say that I hate the dentist as most people admit to having an extreme phobia of getting in that chair. Maybe it's the thought of not being in control or maybe it's the lovely array of the dentist's torture equipment that practically stares you ...  Read the complete review