If you have an infected tooth or a nerve in your tooth is in pain, then you may need a root canal. Root canals are an important procedure to save badly damaged or infected teeth. Thankfully due to modern advancements, root canal treatments are relatively simple and painless procedures.
A root canal is a procedure where the canals within the teeth are disinfected and sealed off so that bacteria cannot continue to thrive. When a tooth becomes infected the only way to get rid of the infection is to do a root canal or remove the tooth all together. If you have an infected tooth or a nerve in your tooth is in pain, then you may need a root canal.
How Root Canals Work
Each tooth has one or multiple canals that run from the tip of each root to a cave like structure (called the pulp chamber) in the center of the tooth. Because these canals are so thin a very limited amount of infection fighting blood cells can reach this area. When a tooth becomes infected, it is this limited blood supply that prevents our bodies from being able to fight off the infection completely. Even modern antibiotics will not completely remove a dental infection.
