Root Canal Treatment - RCT

The last group of tooth conservation treatments is root canal therapy. While the insertion of an inlay and an onlay or a filling are considered routine interventions both for the doctor and the patient, root canal therapy is one of the treatment types causing the greatest pain.

Root canal therapy is tooth conservation, therefore its purpose is to preserve the condition of the tooth in order to prevent further deterioration, and not to have it extracted or replaced. This painful intervention is performed if the dental pulp is inflamed. This happens in case of extremely neglected decay, when the whole on the tooth breaks through the dental enamel and dentin, and it even attacks the dental pulp found in the innermost part of the tooth.

The only solution in such cases (of course, besides tooth extraction) is the total removal of the ill, inflamed and very much painful dental pulp, cleaning the tooth down to the roots, and insert such material in the place of the late dental pulp, which reaches to the tip of the root and totally fills up the place of the late dental pulp. This intervention is painful as the doctor has to intrude down to the root tip, and afterwards, during the filling the filling material has to be continuously pressed together layer by layer in order to achieve the possible best closing and space filling.

During the root canal therapy it may happen that the filling material overruns the root tip or just does not fill in the space totally. Our patients have always been satisfied with our services, it has never happened so far that a root canal therapy has not become totally successful, but for safety’s sake warranty is valid for this treatment as well, of course.