Root Canal Treatment / Endodontics

Sometimes a tooth is so damaged that root canal treatment is necessary to save it. We use the latest methods for this. This allows us to save teeth that, just a few years ago, would typically have had to be extracted. During root canal treatment, we gently remove the inflamed pulp and clean and disinfect the tooth from the inside—so that you can continue to chew with that tooth for as many years as possible.

Root canal treatment is always tailored to the individual, just like your teeth. For example, the front incisors have only a single canal in the root, while large molars typically have 3 or 4 canals that need to be cleaned and disinfected. Sometimes the tooth roots are very sharply angled or slanted and difficult to reach, while other times they are very straight and easy to treat. The quality of the treatment also plays a role: It stands to reason that a tooth that has been thoroughly cleaned and disinfected using every available method has a better chance of remaining in the mouth than one treated with a “standard” root canal procedure that merely meets the minimum requirements (and as you might have guessed—we don’t settle for the minimum requirements). So not all root canal treatments are created equal! At the Friedlingen Dental Center, we therefore use the most modern methods: multiple disinfectant rinses, ultrasonic activation, and shielding the tooth from saliva using cofferdam, so as not to contaminate the canals.