By root canal treatment (endodontical treatment) we understand devitalising a tooth (taking its pulp or “nerve” out). This consists in: chemomechanical cleaning of the canals, disinfecting them, preparing and filling (obturating) them.
This type of treatment is not painful at all, is performed under local anesthesia, with the help of a dental microscope. The specialist doctor decides if the tooth needs a root canal treatment, after a meticulous consultation, combined with the analisys of a dental x-ray.
Root canal treatment is required in one of the following situations:
• a tooth with a big, deep decay that affects the pulp;
• when the pulp itself is inflamed because of untreated cavities, infections or traumatisms;
• in some cases, after a tooth preparation for a prosthodontic restoration (dental crown).
After a root canal treatment, the patient may feel pain or discomfort in that tooth’s area for up to 2 weeks after the intervention, these being perfectly normal manifestations. Microscope assisted root canal treatments have the highest success rate, comparing to classical ones.
Dental microscope used in endodontics allows the specialist doctor to obtain a very clear and detailed picture regarding the tooth’s root canals (the microscope can magnify up to 25x) which gives the doctor precise control and predictible results.
Microscope assisted root canal treatments using rotary files system represents the most efficient and complex protocol currently available, helping the doctor detect all of the root canals, in order to efficiently clean and obturate them.
Our specialist team works with the best materials available and uses state of the art technology in order to help our pacients avoid tooth extraction. Because it loses vital functions and becomes vulnerable, any tooth that has been root canal treated needs to be covered with a dental crown, otherwise it may suffer a fracture (coronary or corono-radiculary) in which case it most often needs to be extracted. Most of the time, after a root canal treatment or retreatment an insertion of a post needs to be performed inside said tooth.
This is a prosthetic element designed to regain strength of a tooth once it suffered a traumatism, an infection or when the tooth has deterioarated to great extents following a deep cavity left untreated for long.
The dental post is applied to the root of a tooth if it is strong enough to support it. It is usually made out of fiberglass and it is directly applied in the dentist’s office. In the other cases, it is made out of zirconia in the dental tehnichian’s laboratory. Further, a dental crown is applied on top of the dental post. This dental crown regains full functionality for the treated tooth.
Pricing for a root canal treatment differs from case to case and is related to the type of the tooth, the number of the roots, the number of the canals, if the tooth lost its vitality or not, if there were interventions prior to the current treatment and whether or not those prior interventions lead to broken instruments stuck inside the canals. The costs start at 250 Euros for a monoradicular tooth and go up to 300 Euros for a pluriradicular tooth, while retreating a pluriradicular tooth reaches 350 Euros. Applying a dental post or removing broken instruments (files) will cost extra.