Understanding More About Endodontists

Endodontists specialize in saving diseased teeth rather than extracting them. Just like cardiologists are specialists in their field, endodontists are specialists that have undergone a minimum of two additional years of post-dental school training. While endodontists are classified as being dentists, less than 3% of all dentists have had the additional training to become endodontists. The additional training that an endodontist in Plano has had focuses on the diagnosis of tooth pain, performing root canal therapy, and providing other treatments associated with the interior of your teeth.

Endodontic Procedures

Root canal therapy is the most common procedure that endodontists perform, with some performing up to 25 of these procedures on a weekly basis.  However, there are other procedures and treatments that they perform as well. For example, a few of them that we perform include:

●    Apicoectomy – an endodontic surgical procedure that removes the end of the tooth root when root canal therapy or retreatment isn’t sufficient enough to save it.

●    Root canal retreatment – in some cases when a tooth has undergone a root canal procedure, it doesn’t heal or there is ongoing pain after the therapy. If this happens, an endodontist in Plano often performs a second treatment or retreatment.

●    Traumatic dental injuries – an impact on the face can cause pulp damage and other trauma to the teeth. We specialize in treating these types of traumatic dental injuries.

If you want to know how your dentist and endodontists work together to provide you with the highest standard of dental care, you can discuss it with them. Not only will they walk you through the whole process, but will ensure that you have no doubts about the procedure that you will be enduring.