Root canal is a treatment to repair and save a badly damaged or infected tooth instead of removing it. The term “root canal” means cleaning of the canals inside a tooth’s root.
A root canal procedure is not as scary as it sounds. The patient may feel little or no pain as your dentist will use local anesthesia to numb the tooth and its surrounding tissues.
If one needs a root canal treatment because of facial swelling or an underlying tooth infection, your dentist may give you antibiotics beforehand to subside the infection, which in turn may help to reduce the pain.
Also, make sure you don’t eat right after a root canal procedure and that you avoid chewing food with that tooth for a few days, as the tooth will remain tender for a few days. For tenderness, over the counter medications for pain may be suggested by your dentist.
The analysis says that pre-treatment pain is usually high and drops moderately within a day of treatment and then dropped substantially to minimum levels within a week. Sometimes the pain drops completely right after cleaning and disinfecting root canals in first visit. When the tooth is heavily infected the treatment may be done in multiple visits by giving medicated dressings inside the cleaned canals until the tooth becomes completely asymptomatic.
However, if the pain persists for more than 2 weeks after the procedure, then you should see your dentist.
Usually, if the root canal hasn’t been cleaned properly, it would cause pain and will need to be looked at and cleaned again.
We at AESTHETICA SARAT BOSE ROAD KOLKATA have a team of expert doctors who specialize in painless root canal treatment and we are very well equipped with the latest technology and materials required to carry out the above said procedure .
