Posts Categorized: Root Canal Therapy

How Treating a Root Canal Could Help You Prevent Tooth Loss

When many people develop tooth decay, they don’t usually think they’ll need root canal treatment to treat it. In most cases, tooth decay and the cavities that they cause can be successfully addressed with a more conservative, tooth-colored filling. However, when tooth decay progresses and becomes a more extensive problem, filing the cavity in your… Read more »

A Closer Look at Root Canal Treatment

When your tooth is compromised for any reason, how your dentist restores it depends on several different factors. For example, if your tooth develops a case of decay, which can lead to the formation of a cavity in the tooth’s structure, then treating it early could mean restoring the tooth with a tooth-colored filling. However,… Read more »

Better Ways to Think About Root Canal Treatment

If you’ve never had root canal treatment before and are told that you need it now, then it may not seem like a good thing for your smile at first. Depending on stories you’ve heard about root canals, you might even be nervous about needing the procedure at all. However, modern root canal treatment is… Read more »

Answering Your Questions About Root Canal Therapy

A root canal is the quintessential scary dentist procedure mentioned in books, TV, and movies. At the Dental Centre of Conroe, we recognize how the media can alter people’s perception of dentistry, often for the worse. However, the reputation of the root canal is undeserved. In today’s blog, your Conroe, TX, dentist will answer your… Read more »

Your Root Canal: The Do-And-Don’t List

If you come in to see our Conroe, TX team and we determine that you need root canal therapy, it’s because it’s the most effective option we can provide you to save your tooth. It means other restorative treatments just aren’t intensive enough to work but it also means that you’re potentially just one step… Read more »

Root Canal Therapy: Your Questions

Ah yes, the ever-avoided root canal therapy that can save an infected tooth! Why would anyone in their right mind avoid something so extraordinarily helpful, we wonder to ourselves? Then, of course, our dental team remembers that there’s a lot of gossip and rumors out there about this otherwise lovely treatment. Allow us to tell… Read more »

3 Important Root Canal Therapy Terms

Do you find that your eyes glaze over quite quickly when you begin reading about what to expect from root canal therapy? Fortunately, we are happy to provide you with a thorough explanation when you come in for your next visit. In the meantime, though, you will likely discover that the challenge of understanding this… Read more »

Quiz: Are You A Root Canal Therapy Whiz?

Do you consider yourself someone who knows all about the details associated with root canal therapy? Or, do you think perhaps you are a bit of a novice since you know just a little bit about this restorative treatment? We always suggest getting to know more about dental services, so you know just what to expect –… Read more »

How To Avoid Root Canal Therapy

If your dental pulp is infected, you will find yourself relieved and happy to find out root canal therapy will rescue your tooth and prevent the need for a dental extraction. You will likely also feel overjoyed that treatment is completely comfortable. However, this doesn’t mean you can’t think of a million things you’d rather… Read more »