Root Canal Treatment
Canadian Dental Association Dental Information System
The Dental Information System (D.I.S.) is a series of booklets by the Canadian Dental Association (CDA). The CDA is the national organization of the dental profession. The CDAs goal is that you have the best dental health possible. The D.I.S. can help you reach this goal.
The booklets in the D.I.S. are:
- Bleaching, Bonding and Veneers
- Care After Minor Oral Surgery
- Dental Care for Seniors
- Growing Up... What It Means for Your Child's Dental Health
- Gum Disease
- Orthodontics
- Personal Dental Care
- Restoring and Replacing Your Teeth
- Root Canal Treatment
- Taking Care of Cavities
- The ABCs of Caring for Your Child's Teeth
- The Check-up
- TMD (Temporomandibular Disorders)
- You and Your Dentist - Oral Health Care Partners
To learn even more about your dental health, talk to your dentist. To learn more about the CDA, visit our web site at www.cda-adc.ca.
The CDA would like to thank the following people for their contribution to this edition of Root Canal Treatment:
- on behalf of the Canadian Academy of Endodontics,
Dr. Howard Fogel.
The CDA would also like to thank:
- Dr. Tom Breneman
- Dr. Chantal Fortier
- Dr. Patricia Main
- Dr. Elizabeth Van Heyst.
The CDA is grateful to Colgate-Palmolive for its generous support of the D.I.S. Colgate-Palmolive's sponsorship has made this program possible. The D.I.S. booklets are produced and distributed by Canadian Dental Service Plans Inc.
Root Canal Treatment
Dentists today believe that the best teeth are your own, and they try their best to make sure you do not lose any of them. Successful root canal treatment lets you keep your tooth. The only other option is to have your tooth removed.
Keeping your tooth helps to prevent your other teeth from drifting out of line and causing jaw problems or gum disease. Saving a natural tooth avoids having to replace it with either a bridge or an implant.
This booklet is about root canal treatment. Here's what you will learn about in this booklet:
- What is root canal treatment?
- When root canal treatment is needed page
- Dentists and root canal treatment
- How it is done
- Things to consider
- Root canal retreatment and root canal surgery
Dr. Molly Rodgers, General Dentist - Providing services in cosmetic dentistry to the area of Edmonton Alberta, Canada.
