Root Canal Treatment

A big smile means so much – it shows we’re happy, feeling good about ourselves and full of confidence. One of the most common excuses for not smiling much is feeling ashamed about our teeth. The best long term solution for smile confidence is a smile makeover – cosmetic dentistry treatment that will change the way you feel about your teeth. Fixing crooked or stained teeth gives you a new found confidence that is a lifetime investment but it needn’t cost the earth. Going overseas for cosmetic dental work can save you thousands of pounds and places like Hungary offer first class treatment….

Dental implants are routinely placed beside natural teeth and this is generally very safe to do. The only exception to this would be if the natural root was very curved or tilted unfavourably in the proposed path of the implant. This could cause the root to be damaged by the implant, however this can usually be avoided by careful pre-operative planning….

Preparing a tooth for a dental crown usually requires two visits – the first step involves examining and preparing the tooth, the second visit involves placement of the permanent crown. Examining and preparing the tooth. At the first visit, your dentist may take a few x-rays to check the roots of the tooth receiving the dental crown and surrounding bone….

While teeth are hard calcified objects, they are not completely solid. In the inner most aspect of every tooth there lies a hollow space which, when a tooth is healthy, contains the tooth’s nerve tissue. Dentists use the following terms to refer to various portions of this nerve area: The pulp chamber: This is a hollow space that lies more or less in the center of the tooth….

You might think that a tooth’s nerve tissue is vitally important to a tooth’s health and function, but in reality it’s not. A tooth’s nerve tissue plays an important role in the growth and development of the tooth, but once the tooth has erupted through the gums and has finished maturing the nerve’s only function is sensory (it provides the tooth with the ability to feel hot and cold).
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Our bodies, as a defence mechanism, will initiate an “inflammation reaction” when irritants (such as those seeping out of a problematic tooth) have injured or destroyed body tissues. If incorporating the term “inflammation” into our description we would then say, root canal treatment is the treatment of the inner aspects of a tooth…