What does root canal treatment involve?

Root canal therapy is a major method for treating dental diseases, and has a good therapeutic effect on periodontitis, apical periodontitis, pulponeuritis and other dental diseases. If you choose root canal treatment for your teeth, you generally need to go through seven steps: determine the treatment plan and price, remove the dead pulp, perform root canal treatment, complete treatment, remove moisture and medication, remove the membrane, and wear a crown. The following is a detailed introduction for everyone!

1. Determine treatment plan and price

When you go to the hospital or dental clinic, the doctor will ask you to take an X-ray and then develop a treatment plan. An experienced doctor will know at first glance that root canal treatment is necessary and will discuss the cost with you. Generally, front teeth have only one root, while molars have four, and a root canal will cost about one to two hundred dollars. However, after root canal treatment, the tooth will become dead. So you have to get braces, which cost between several hundred and one thousand. Young people generally choose better ones because they will be used for a longer time.

2. Remove dead pulp

After the plan and price were agreed upon, the treatment began. First, the decayed tooth was drilled and the replaced teeth were removed. Local anesthesia is given by injecting an anesthetic needle next to the affected tooth, the pulp cavity is opened, and the necrotic pulp is removed.

3. Root canal treatment

Because the root canal wall is uneven, it is easy for pulp tissue to remain in the depressed area. You need to use a root canal to make piston movements on the tooth root to clean out the damaged pulp. In cooperation, use disinfectant to disinfect and clean the roots.

4. Thorough treatment

Generally, root canal treatment of large teeth needs to be done 2-3 times. First of all, large teeth have more root canals, and some of the pulps are still alive. The treatment cannot be completed in the first treatment, and medicine must be put in first to deactivate the living pulp. After putting the medicine in, do it a second time after a week. After all the root canals have been treated, you will need to get an X-ray to check the correct length of the root canals to ensure that they are done thoroughly.

5. Dehydration and drug delivery

After taking an X-ray and seeing that there was no problem, I used medicine to seal the tooth and observed it for a week. If there are no problems during the period, you can proceed to the next step.

6. Take the membrane

The entire treatment cycle took about half a month. After all the tooth roots were disinfected and cleaned, the teeth could be sealed and the membrane removed. If you don't need a crown, you can just seal it with medicine. If you need to wear a crown, you have to fix your tooth and then grind it down, then use ointment to fix the shape of your tooth and take the membrane to make the crown.

7. Wearing a crown

Dental crowns, also known as ceramic teeth, are usually made within 5-7 days. After grinding your teeth, the doctor will give you temporary braces to cover up the ugliness of your front teeth, but this is not necessary for your back teeth. Just wait until the braces are made and then go to the hospital to get them put on.