What conditions are suitable for oral root canal treatment?

Oral root canal treatment is actually mainly a treatment process for oral dental diseases. Root canal treatment mainly clears necrotic cells or substances, and then performs anti-inflammatory or disinfection. Oral root canal treatment is currently a relatively stable treatment method and is performed in many regular dental hospitals. There are many diseases that can be treated with oral root canal therapy, the most common of which are caries, hidden cracks, crown fractures, etc. The probability of these diseases requiring root canal therapy is very high, so it will be beneficial for you to know more about them. Any abnormalities in the oral cavity should be promptly checked.

Root canal therapy is a treatment process for lesions of teeth, pulp, and root apex. Root canal therapy is a treatment method that removes necrotic substances in the root canal, performs appropriate disinfection, and fills the root canal to remove the adverse stimulation of the root canal contents to the tissues around the root apex, prevent the occurrence of periapical lesions, or promote the healing of periapical lesions.

Indications

First, pulpitis and pulp necrosis caused by any reason (including caries, hidden cracks, crown fractures, deformed central cusp, excessive wear, retrograde infection of periodontal disease, and accidental pulp perforation) that cannot preserve the vital pulp.

Second, apical lesions caused by any reason (including continued development of pulpitis, failure of plastination treatment, and retrograde infection of periodontitis).

Third, apical infection of the pulp is caused by physical and chemical reasons, such as pulp irritation caused by temperature due to poor padding after filling, electric current stimulation of different metals, and apical periodontitis caused by drugs during pulp treatment.

Fourth, degenerative changes of the dental pulp caused by unknown reasons, such as root canal resorption and pulp stone causing pathological changes of the dental pulp.

The process of root canal treatment is that the doctor uses special instruments for root canal treatment to completely remove the infected pulp, infected dentin and toxic decomposition products, and then rinses, disinfects and tightly fills the root canal to isolate bacteria from entering the root canal and causing reinfection, thereby preventing the occurrence of periapical lesions or promoting the healing of periapical lesions.

How to protect your teeth after root canal treatment

After a root canal treatment, a tooth is usually left with only an empty shell around it. Due to the loss of nutrition from the pulp, the tooth itself becomes brittle and easy to break. The back teeth may be subjected to a force of fifty to seventy kilograms when chewing, and the teeth are at risk of splitting at any time during use. Therefore, doctors usually recommend that teeth that have undergone root canal treatment be protected with caps. After a tooth has undergone root canal treatment, the center of the crown is usually empty due to the tooth's own structure and the need for treatment. At this time, if a brace is made directly, its fracture resistance is very poor. It is usually necessary to drive a post into the root of the tooth to make a solid core to resist the fracture force during tooth use.