Root Canal
Alternatives
Alternatives to Root Canal Treatment For your dental health. Once the pulp of a tooth has become infected, your choices are limited. Your could choose to: * Delay treament * Extract the tooth * Save the tooth with root canal treatment...
Apicoectomy
What Is an Apicoectomy? For your dental health. Sometimes after a root canal, the infection within your tooth's root continues to grow. This infection, when it spreads into the bone at the tip of the root, is called an abscess. An abscess...
Cracked Tooth Syndrome
Cracked Tooth Syndrome For your dental health. Cracked tooth syndrome is a term that describes recurring discomfort, sensitivity, or pain that is caused by an incomplete fracture or crack in a tooth. The fracture involved in cracked tooth...
Crown Needs Root Canal
Why does my crowned tooth need a root canal? Why a CrownedTooth May Need a Root Canal For your dental health. A crown restores a tooth that has been seriously damaged. While the crown protects the outside of a tooth, it can't protect the sof...
Post & Core
Post and Core For your dental health. Sometimes, when a tooth has broken off due to fracture or decay, there's simply not enough of your natural tooth remaining to place a crown. Fortunately, we can replace the missing portion and save your...
Root Canal
How did my tooth become infected? Root Canal Diagnosis For your dental health. The visible, exterior layer of a tooth is called the enamel. Beneath the enamel is another hard layer, called the dentin. The dentin surrounds a small chamber at...
Root Canal
For your dental health. Root canal therapy often takes two or more appointments to complete. A temporary filling or crown is placed to protect the tooth between appointments, but you should take the following precautions to protect your tooth and ease...
Rubber Dam
What Is a Rubber Dam? For your dental health. A rubber dam is a small, stretchable sheet of rubber that we use to isolate the teeth we are working on and keep them dry. The rubber dam also keeps debris from falling to the back of your throat. T...
Single Visit
How did my tooth become infected? Root Canal Therapy Single Visit For your dental health. When a tooth becomes infected, it's necessary to remove the source of infection through root canal therapy. We understand that you may have anxiety about...
Two Visits
Root Canal TherapyTwo Visits For your dental health. When a tooth becomes infected, it's absolutely necessary to remove the source of infection through root canal therapy. We understand that some patients have anxiety about root canal therapy,...