What is Root Canal Treatment?

To get rid of tooth pain and save your teeth, root canal treatment is usually a simple process. When there is swelling or infection in the roots of a tooth, most people need a root canal. An endodontist carefully removes the pulp inside the tooth during root canal treatment. The root canals are then cleaned and shaped, and a filling is put in to close the hole.

Types of Root Canal Treatments

Single Sitting RCT

With rotary endodontic technology, root canal treatments can be done in just one sitting, which makes the process easier and more comfortable. As long as the patient doesn’t have any complications like swelling inside or outside the mouth, Single Sitting Root Canal Treatment is the same as traditional RCT. It is one of the most advanced treatments in endodontics.

At Complete Dental Care in Delhi, we do root canal treatments in just one sitting wherever the condition is right for it. We use rotary endodontic technology to make the process precise, easier and more comfortable for our patients.

Multiple Visit RCT

The whole process might be done over more than one visit, especially if the infection is bad or the root canal anatomy of the tooth is complicated. At each visit, a different part of the root canal treatment process is done.

Here is a general outline of what could happen over several visits:

When the dentist looks at the tooth and takes X-rays, he or she decides that a root canal is necessary.

  • On the first visit, the dentist cleans and forms the root canals, takes out the infected pulp, and gets them ready for the filling.
  • Intermediate Visits (if needed): If the case is complicated or there are complications, you may need to make more visits to make sure the infection is totally gone.
  • At the last visit, the root canals are cleaned and shaped, then filled with a safe material. The tooth is then sealed to stop infection from spreading. Sometimes, a temporary filling is put in first, and then a permanent filling or crown is put in at a later visit.
  • Follow-up: The dentist may make follow-up meetings to check on how the tooth is healing and make sure it is working properly.

Microscope enhanced Root Canal treatment

Microscope enhanced Root Canal treatment

What is an Endodontic Microscope?

An endodontic microscope is a magnifying tool that helps you see and treat the root canal’s smaller and more complicated parts more accurately and successfully.

Endomicroscope Pros and Cons and How It Can Help You as a Patient
When we use a microscope, the access opening (the hole that leads to the root canal) is much smaller than when we look at it with the naked eye. This helps protect the tooth structure so that it lasts longer.

RCT done with a microscope is like minimally invasive keyhole surgery in medicine, but the body heals faster.

With a microscope, it is much easier to see how many canals are inside the root than with the naked eye. This means that there is no chance of missing any canals, which could cause the RCT to fail or the tooth to become sensitive after treatment.

When an RCT is done with a microscope, it is done very precisely, so there are almost no chances of problems happening during or after the process. At Complete Dental Care we use loupes and microscopes for endodontic procedures.

What does Re-RCT mean?

When treatment for a tooth that has already been treated fails, re-root canal therapy, also called Re-RCT, is tried again.

Before a few years ago, all RCT was done by hand and with the naked eye. This could fail for a number of reasons, such as missing canals, short filings, perforations, broken tools or drill bits that were left behind, non-adhesive root sealers like zinc oxide eugenol, and an incorrect core seal.

Now that microscopes and other helpful tools like the Digital Apex Locator, WiFi-enabled Root Canal Motor, Ultrasonic tips, Sonic activation, Bio-ceramic Root filling, and Double layered Resin core filling are available, teeth that have already had Root Canal treatment fail can be successfully treated again.

Complete Dental Care has all the tools we need to do a Re-Root canal or Retreatment with a guaranteed result.