Root Canal Treatment

In many cases, we’ll be able to carry out this appointment in one or two appointments. More complex cases may require three or more appointments.

We’ll apply anaesthetic before carrying out the treatment, so you don’t have to worry about experiencing any pain during the treatment.

Once your anaesthetic has worn off, you should expect to experience some pain and discomfort at the site of treatment. This is because it takes time for the wound to heal, but you should be able to treat this with paracetamol or ibuprofen, for example.

Depending on the extent of the damage present, we’ll use either a filling or a crown to repair and restore the tooth to full function after removing the infection.

Root canal treatments have a success rate of 80-90%. The sooner we catch the infection, the better the chances of success are, which is why regular dental examinations are so important.

In more complex cases, root canal treatments can unfortunately fail. If this happens, we may be able to treat it by either carrying out the treatment again or with an apicoectomy. This is a surgical procedure with which we can access the very tip of the tooth root and remove any infection present. In the most advanced cases, we would have to remove the tooth completely and replace it with a denture, implant, or bridge.