Typically retaining your natural teeth are the best to maintain overall oral health.  Keeping your tooth helps to prevent your other teeth from drifting out of line and causing jaw problems or gum disease. Saving a natural tooth avoids having to replace it with either a bridge or an implant.  Therefore, all effort should be made to ensure that you do not lose any of them.  When a tooth is badly damaged by decay, root canal treatment, or endodontics, allows for the damaged portion to be removed while keeping the undamaged portion intact.

Like placing a filling, the damaged portion of the tooth is removed.  However, unlike teeth only requiring fillings, teeth that require root canals have such extensive decay that the entire nerve center, or pulp, of the tooth must be removed.  Essentially the root canal of the tooth is hollowed out (pulpotomy) and sealed canal with a rubber-like material called gutta-percha.  The treated tooth will next receive a filling or be prepared for a crown placement, depending upon the individual characteristic of the tooth in question.  Family Dental Center offers SAME DAY root canal and crown placement.