Dental Services in Hammond, LA

Root Canal Dental Treatment In Hammond, LA

At Concord Family Dental, we always use the most conservative approach possible to keep your original teeth intact. With advances in modern dentistry, we can often save your tooth with root canal treatment, even if the surrounding pulp is injured or infected.

When you experience an infection or trauma to a tooth, we may recommend a root canal. We will be able to treat your condition right here in our Hammond, LA dental office. Root canal therapy is needed when the nerve of a tooth is affected by decay or infection. In order to save the tooth, the pulp (the living tissue inside the tooth), nerves, bacteria, and any decay are removed and the resulting space is filled with special, medicated, dental materials, which restore the tooth to its full function.

Having a root canal done on a tooth is the treatment of choice to save a tooth that otherwise would die and have to be removed. Many patients believe that removing a tooth that has problems is the solution, but what is not realized is that extracting (pulling) a tooth will ultimately be more costly and cause significant problems for adjacent teeth.

Root canal treatment involves the removal of the tooth’s pulp, a small thread-like tissue important for tooth development. Once the pulp is removed by our family dentist in Hammond, LA, we replace it with materials that seal off the root canal from its supporting structures. Years ago, diseased or injured teeth were often simply extracted.

Root canal treatment is highly successful and usually lasts a lifetime, although on occasion, a tooth will have to be retreated due to new infections.

Many of our patients express fear or concern about pain when it comes to having a root canal. However, the symptoms you feel are often the most painful part of the procedure. Because root canals eliminate your infection and promote healing, you should begin to improve soon after your treatment.