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Saves the tooth
Root canal treatment in Sharjah
Keep your own tooth instead of losing it. Nothing replaces a natural tooth as well as the natural tooth.
When decay or injury reaches the nerve inside a tooth, the nerve becomes infected. That is the pain that keeps you awake, throbs on its own and does not respond to painkillers.
A root canal removes the infected nerve, cleans and disinfects the canals inside the root, and seals them. The pain stops, the infection is dealt with, and the tooth stays in your mouth.
The alternative is extraction — and then a gap, or the cost of a bridge or denture to fill it. Saving the tooth is almost always the better answer.
When you need it
- Pain that wakes you at night or throbs on its own
- Painkillers barely touch it
- Lingering pain with hot drinks, sometimes eased by cold
- The tooth is tender to bite on
- A gum boil, swelling or bad taste near one tooth
- The tooth has darkened compared with its neighbours
What happens at the appointment
Diagnosis and X-ray
We confirm which tooth it is — referred pain is common and treating the wrong tooth helps nobody — and check how far the infection has spread.
Numbing and isolation
Local anaesthetic, then the tooth is isolated so nothing from the rest of your mouth gets into the canals we are about to clean.
Cleaning the canals
The infected nerve tissue is removed and the canals inside the root are cleaned, disinfected and shaped along their full length. This is the part that decides whether the treatment lasts.
Sealing
The canals are filled and sealed so bacteria cannot re-enter, and the tooth is closed with a filling.
Afterwards
The pain that brought you in usually goes within a day. Mild tenderness to biting for a few days afterwards is normal while the ligament around the root settles.
Chew on the other side until the tooth is permanently restored. A root-treated back tooth is more brittle than a living one and can split if you test it.
Worth knowing
Why saving the tooth is worth it
The alternative to a root canal is losing the tooth — and then living with a gap, or paying for a bridge or denture to fill it. Nothing replaces a natural tooth as well as the natural tooth. Saving it is almost always both the better answer and, once you count what replacing a tooth costs, the cheaper one.
Do you need a crown on top?
Front teeth often manage with a filling. Back teeth take the full force of chewing and are usually better protected with a crown. We will tell you honestly which category your tooth falls into rather than adding a crown to every case.
The pain stops, the infection does not
Nerves die. When the nerve inside an infected tooth finally dies the pain often disappears completely, and people take that as the problem resolving itself. It is not. The infection carries on quietly at the root tip and eventually shows up as swelling or an abscess. A tooth that hurt badly and then went silent still needs looking at.
Common questions
Is a root canal painful?
The reputation comes from the pain that sends people to the dentist, not the treatment. The tooth is numbed and most patients say it feels like a long filling.
How many visits?
Often one or two, depending on the tooth and how much infection there is.
Will I need a crown afterwards?
A back tooth usually does, to stop it fracturing. We will tell you whether yours needs one, and what it costs, before we begin.
How long does the tooth last afterwards?
Properly cleaned, sealed and protected, a root-treated tooth can last for decades.
Not sure what you need?
Just ask.
Message us on WhatsApp with what is bothering you. We will tell you what it is likely to be and what it will cost — before you come in.