Everyone thinks the root canal is so painful And 99% of them, that’s not the case. Typically, if the tooth is treated when the patient is not having pain, it doesn’t hurt at all. And it’s pretty, pretty straightforward procedure.
Nowadays you hear a lot of people and there’s a lot of dentists that actually that go and say, don’t get a root canal. Just pull the tooth out, do an implant. I don’t believe that that’s the case. If at least on every situation, most situations, if the tooth is is if there’s enough to structure there to to work with, I believe we’re still better off trying to do a root canal on a tooth.
implants are a great last option they work, they’re amazing, but they’re not better than what you’re not than your natural tooth.
Your natural tooth is always the better option. And and so if we could do root canal on on a tooth and still restored, I believe that’s the right way to do it.
When we have patients that come in that that are nervous or a little scared. My team is amazing and my assistants are excellent at just helping calm patients down and kind of help prepare them, let them know kind of what what the process is. We do offer nitrous oxide or laughing gas as called to help patients relax. And then we talk our patients through it.
Some patients want to know what’s going on and some don’t. And so we make sure we know what patient we’re working with. If it is, if they are more comfortable knowing what’s going on, we will share with them kind of the process. Okay, now we’re doing we’re doing this now. Now we’re going to do this.
Some patients don’t want to know anything. And for them, we don’t we don’t overshare with them. our patients comfort is is our primary concern when we’re doing any major procedure, whether it’s a root canal or, you know, placing an implant or extracting tooth, we want to make sure that the patients are are comfortable and and not overly anxious.
