Root Canal Awareness Week brings public awareness to endodontics so that patients and general dentists know to contact an endodontic specialist for root canal treatment. Endodontists play an important role in dental health, yet not many people even know they exist. That’s why the American Association of Endodontics (AAE) established Root Canal [...]
Enjoy benefits that outlast and outperform dental implants by opting for root canal treatment instead. Root canal treatment has undergone quite a transformation over the past few decades due to ongoing research and new developments in dental technology. A treatment that has been for a long time thought to be a painful [...]
In addition to providing pain relief, root canal treatment has proven to offer many other lasting oral benefits. Mentioning the words ‘root canal treatment’ to most dental patients garners an immediate reaction of fear. Most people have an outdated perception regarding what the treatment actually is, still holding the belief that it’s [...]
Over time, a stigma has formed around root canal treatment that deems it to be a painful process with the possibility of leading to cancer, stroke, or other health problems. Professional Endodontics would like to break that stigma because, in reality, this is an outdated and unfounded view of root canals. In [...]
Endodontists provide an elevated level of service and care for patients who require root canal treatment to save a tooth. Endodontic patients who have had a dental injury, disease, or needed root canal therapy benefit most from preserving their natural teeth. There is a wide array of research that shows that saving [...]
Root canal treatment can provide permanent relief from tooth pain and offers many lasting oral health benefits. When it comes to having dental work completed, it is important to select the treatment that will have the best effect on your long-term health. For example, studies have shown that having a root canal [...]
Preserving natural teeth through root canal treatments should be a priority for patients and dental care providers. Whether you are dealing with painful tooth decay, an unexpected injury, or a dental emergency, saving your injured or damaged tooth should be a priority. In the past it may have been more common to [...]
There is no debate when it comes to treating a tooth with a root canal or extraction: root canals are almost always the better choice. Endodontists receive significant training in the diagnosis and treatment of oral pain. As a result, they have a special level of expertise when it comes to handling [...]
