Endodontics is root canal system treatment. Root canal treatment is one of the most common and predictable dental procedures performed, with well over 15 million treatments each year. Success rates are reported to be above 97% (ref.1). This nonsurgical or surgical micro treatment saves your natural teeth and helps you to avoid the need for dental implants or bridges.
Our teeth are hollow and at the center of one’s tooth is a collection of blood vessels, lymphatic systems, innervations, and connective tissue that forms as pulp-like tissues. Without these tissues, teeth would never form. Once a tooth is formed, however, the pulp serves no developmental function. Its real job is to tell us when we have damage to the tooth or the pulp itself. The health of a fully developed tooth does not depend on a living pulp. It depends, instead, on a healthy and living attachment to surrounding bone. When pulp becomes diseased due to decay or a cumulative effect of needed restorations, root canal treatment successfully replaces the damaged delicate root canal system with an inert pulpal repair. The damaged pulp is microscopically removed and the canals are prepared with measurable precision and then freshly repaired with an inert three-dimensional seal.