Traditional Root Canal Treatment
Traditional root canal treatment is called endontic therapy.
Root Canal Therapy
Root canal's include the complete removal of the guts of your tooth. Then there is an inertial cleaning, a shaping, and a decontamination.
To your left: you see a typical tooth before a root canal. There is a cavity where the pulp of the tooth is breached, and below the tooth there is a dark pool, representing the beginning stages of an infection.
To your right: you see the first step of the root canal procedure, the entire top of the tooth is drilled away, and the tooth pulp is removed.
The Tooth Pulp
Above is a picture of someone's removed tooth pulp
The Pulp Contains:
1. odontoblasts (tooth forming cells)
2. other cells including collagen fibres and undifferentiated mesenchymal cells, as well as defense cells like histiocytes, macrophages, granulocytes, mast cells and plasma cells
3. blood vessels
4. nerves
More Root Canal Therapy
To your left: The root of the teeth are cleaned out and the remaining tissues are extracted.
To your right: The final root canalled tooth. The interior of the tooth has been filled with a rubber filling made out of synthetic chemicals. A crown is then placed on the dead tooth.
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