Endodontics is the dental branch that involves the care of the endodontum, or the space – present within each individual tooth – in which the dental pulp resides (consisting of cells, blood vessels and nerves).

It is necessary to turn to endodontic therapy when a carious or traumatic lesion causes irreversible alteration of the dental pulp, which can lead to necrosis.

When is endodontics neccesary?

Endodontic therapy is sometimes used when, preparing a tooth for prosthetic purposes, the reduction of dental tissue could lead to pulp necrosis. In this case the necrosis is due to iatrogenic causes.

Endodontic therapy is divided into orthograde and retrograde.

 

Orthograde endodontic therapy consists of several phases that we can list as follows:

• Reaching the pulp chamber.
• Shaping with manual or mechanical endodontic instruments.
• Cleansing of root canals with irrigants (eg hydrogen peroxide, sodium hypochlorite).
• Sealing of the canal with thermoplastic rubber (called Gutta-percha).
• Radiographic control.
• Retrograde endodontics, on the other hand, is used when it is not possible to access the canal through orthograde endodontics: for example, when  there is an abstruction of the canal.

 

Elite Dental can help you not only for endodontics, but also for the entire range of dental care, dental implantology, prosthetics of all kinds, teeth whitening and oral hygiene and can offer you convenient installment payments for all dental services.

 

 

WHO CAN I CONTACT FOR ENDODONTICS?

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Elite Dental’s staff is consits of expert medical dentists graduated in Italy and enrolled in the order of Italian dentists, who will be able to advise you if you need to resort to endodontics, all our offices open in Italy are equipped to do this type of dental care, then call us with confidence and we will be able to advise you in the best possible way.