Root Canal in Toronto

Root canal treatment is used to treat damaged, infected, or inflamed tooth pulps. The tooth pulp is the inner part of your tooth, made of nerves, blood vessels, and other connective tissues. Damage to the pulp should be handled immediately and with precision, as it can lead to tooth loss. 

Although treatment differs depending on your specific case, our highly skilled Toronto specialists have prepared a list of the different steps of the procedure below to give you a general idea of what happens prior to, during, and after root canal treatment.

The first step our knowledgeable root canal therapists go through is ensuring you are a good candidate for a root canal. In this step, you might need to take some X-rays. Our professional endodontist in Toronto might also check the sensitivity of your teeth and the extent to which the infection has progressed to determine how sensitive your teeth are and what other steps might be necessary. After the diagnostic check is over, our dentist will isolate your damaged tooth or teeth to preserve the rest of your mouth from risks such as infection. Then, the highly-skilled root canal therapy dentist at Downtown Toronto Dentistry will access the diseased pulp from above or behind before removing it. Once the damaged pulp is removed, your dentist will clean and disinfect your tooth before filling it.

When the inside pulp of your tooth becomes infected, you should consider removing the infected part without hesitation. Severe tooth decay can spread throughout the tooth and cause infection and inflammation. Tooth cracks, chips, and fractures also require root canal therapy at our Toronto clinic. A severely infected tooth, when left untreated, results in excruciating pain, tooth abscess, and even tooth loss. In such cases, contact our Toronto root canal therapist in no time if you want to save your natural tooth. 

Our patients come to visit us for root canal therapy in Toronto, and they consider it a painful and stressful procedure. However, root canal treatment is totally painless and helps you get relief from infection, damage, and discomfort. Even if the root canal procedure causes mild pain after your treatment, it eventually results in saving your natural tooth for many years to come. 

Despite patients’ imagination, you won’t experience severe pain and bleeding after the root canal therapy and when the numbing effects wear off. Our Toronto root canal specialist removes the nerves inside your tooth, giving you the pain relief you need before the procedure. However, you may feel tooth sensitivity for a few days after you undergo root canal therapy. If you feel mild pain after the root canal procedure, you can take a painkiller after consulting our root canal specialist in Toronto.