Clinical experience, misunderstood concepts and frequently asked questions. Notes from many years of practice.
A tooth abscess is pus at an infected root tip or in the gum. Treatment removes the source; in trials of 134 adults, antibiotics added little. Urgent signs.
Some tenderness after root canal treatment is expected, especially when chewing. The important question is whether the pain is improving. Learn what to expect during the first week, which symptoms may indicate a flare-up, when to contact the dentists at Mosdent, and how treatment costs can vary for international patients.
Smoking after a root canal is not governed by the same rules as smoking after a tooth extraction. There is no blood clot in the treated tooth socket to protect, but smoking may affect healing around the root tip over the following months. Learn when smoking is most concerning, what the evidence shows, and how to protect your treatment result.
Root canal treatment and dental implants are not competing treatments: one preserves an existing tooth, the other replaces a tooth that cannot be saved.
A failed root canal is not an automatic extraction. Retreatment has a 76.7% pooled healing rate; microsurgery is next, extraction only for unrestorable teeth.
Root decay starts below the gum line, where brushing rarely reaches. A meta-analysis put pooled prevalence at 41% in middle-aged and elderly populations.
A dead tooth is not a lost tooth. Pooled data from 63 studies put primary root canal success at 68% to 85% under strict radiographic criteria.
A dental cyst grows quietly and is usually found on a routine radiograph. What causes one, how it is told apart from a granuloma, and how it is removed.
Root canal treatment removes infected pulp and seals the canals to save the tooth; in a 420-tooth cohort, 10-year survival was 81.5%, higher with a crown.
