Root Canal Treatment (RCT)

Single Visit (RCT) Root Canal Therapy

What's a Root, what's a Canal and why the Treatment?

A root of the tooth is the part of the tooth that we don't see, the part that is under the gums, inside the bone

In the center of the root runs a canal that contains the nerves and the blood vessels, and yes blood runs inside our teeth. They are alive and healthy.

These canals are protected by the external layers of the tooth and nothing can go inside to infect them, until there is a cavity that starts from the top of the tooth and goes digging deeper.

This cavity if it's not treated by your dentist, will reach the canal and will make an opening to the vessels and nerves.

Now the germs and the bacteria will go inside the canal and infect the blood vessels and the nerves, spreading the infection beyond the tooth, in the bone and gums, creating an abscess.

Long ago, before RCT existed, we used to extract these dead teeth, but thanks to RCT now we can save those infected teeth and keep them for a long long time.

What's an RCT? How does it save a tooth?

Well just like a skin wound, we disinfect the tooth and stop the bacteria from infecting it again.

Technically we disinfect the canals inside the roots, and we stop the bacteria from going in again by filling the cavity

The tooth is saved.

Here's one last thought about the number of visits needed for RCTs?

The inside of a tooth is the inside of the body, there are blood vessels and nerves.

Let me ask you this, would a heart surgeon perform a heart surgery in multiple visits?

Of course not. The faster a body is opened and closed, the better. That's a general rule for any surgery.

And the same applies to a tooth. RCTs are done in one single visit; no more multiple visits.

Dentists used to do RCTs in 3 or 4 visits because the instruments and the techniques for a fast, accurate, and efficient single visit RCT did not exist.

Now we do RCTs in one single visit, and it's been a while we're doing it like that.

Painless RTCs in one single visit are the standard today.

So, let's not extract teeth anymore. Let's save them. RCTs save teeth, and save money. Replacing an extracted tooth costs more than saving it with RCT.

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