Medical concepts of root canal treatment

The root canal is the root part of the hollow channel of the tooth nerve. The tooth nerve through the apical foramen into the root canal to provide nutrition to the teeth by the jaw. Under normal circumstances the root canal is not connected with the mouth. Decay after the destruction of dental tissue, the root canal can be sorted oral interlinked to become the "main road" bacteria in the mouth into the deep tissue - the jaw, causing the apical inflammation causing pain and swelling. In order to plug the channel, the doctor is necessary to completely remove the root canal of the tooth nerve, and dental instruments clean the root canal, and finally with some of the filling material tightly filling the root canal, this course of treatment is called root canal treatment. Sometimes due to the needs of dental trauma, cracked or repair will do the root canal treatment?

Root canal treatment, largely due to severe tooth decay. Do root canal treatment of teeth due to severe tooth decay are generally a result of defects larger but not strong, root canal treatment done, do crown to protect patients often are not careful when eating biting stones, bones crack of teeth, fish bone and other hard objects occur, What causes the porcelain teeth quality problem resulting in irreversible loss of tooth.

Therefore, teeth after root canal treatment the doctor will often recommend that you do a protective crown, sometimes piling do crown.