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What is a root canal?
Your teeth are meant to last a lifetime. If your tooth becomes diseased or injured, it can often be saved through root canal therapy.
Your tooth may look like one solid piece, but it has many layers. There are two main parts of your tooth: the crown and the root. The crown is the part of the tooth you can see. The root is the part of the tooth below the gum line in the jaw bone.
The inside of the crown contains the pulp chamber, which continues toward the tip of the root in what is called the root canal. In each root, there may be one or more root canals. The root canals contain the dental pulp, which is made up of nerves and blood vessels and extends to the tip of each root. When the pulp tissue becomes infected or inflamed, treatment is needed. Root canal therapy is a procedure that removes injured or infected dental pulp from the canal.
Common causes of disease or injury to the pulp are:
- a cracked or chipped tooth
- a deep cavity or filling
- a leaking filling
- complications from large fillings
- Another serious injury to the tooth
All of these can allow bacteria to enter the pulp and cause infection and inflammation.
Problems from infected or inflamed pulp
The infection and inflammation in the pulp can spread to the tissues around the root of the tooth. This can cause pain and swelling and can lead to a pus-filled sac called an abscess. But, even if there is no pain, bacteria from the infection can damage the bone that holds the tooth in your jaw.
Without root canal therapy, the infection and damage will continue and your tooth most likely will need to be removed.
