Root Canal Treatment: Videos and other content on Dental-Picture-Show.com

Here's a listing of pages, tables and videos on Dental-Picture-Show.com that are a part of its coverage of the topic Root Canal Therapy. (This procedure is also referred to as Endodontic Therapy.)

Videos :

What is the purpose of root canal treatment?

This brief 3-part video series illustrates and explains the underlying purpose and goals of root canal therapy.

Segment 1- What part of the tooth is treated? / Segment 2- Why is root canal treatment necessary to save a tooth? / Segment 3- The importance of the tooth's interior seal.

What are the individual steps of root canal therapy?

This video series outlines and illustrates, in three short segments, the individual steps that a dentist must focus on when performing root canal treatment.

Segment 1- Initiating the treatment. / Segment 2- Cleaning the tooth's interior. / Segment 3- Sealing the tooth.

Tooth coronal leakage - (Root canal treatment complication.)

This video discusses and illustrates a phenomenon dentists term "coronal leakage." When it happens, contaminates seep back inside a tooth, thus causing its root canal treatment to fail. It's prevented by placing, and maintaining, a quality dental restoration on the tooth.

Pages and tables :

How many root canals do teeth have?

Many of the treatment specifics associated with a root canal case (including cost, treatment time and case complexity) are influenced by the number of root canals the tooth has. If you know which of your teeth needs treatment (or the type of tooth or tooth number), the table on this page can help to give you a heads-up about the number of root canals it probably has.
     This page also contains links to pages that provide cost estimates for treating different types of teeth and what's usual in terms of appointment scheduling.

Reasons why teeth need root canal treatment.

Dentists use the root canal procedure as a solution for a number of different problems, conditions and situations. And while the content on this page is a bit on the technical side, it does outline the most common reasons why teeth require endodontic therapy.