WHAT IS ENDODONTICS AND ENDODONTIC TREATMENT

Endodontics is medical science, in the field of dentistry, which deals with the internal tissues of the tooth, the pathologies and related treatments. When these tissues or tissues surrounding the dental root become sick or damage due to tooth decay or trauma, endodontic treatment saves the tooth.

Endodontic treatment is an outpatient dental procedure that is necessary when the pulp (the soft tissue inside the tooth) is inflamed or infected due to damage caused by deep caries, the outcome of operations on the tooth, or a trauma (severe and sudden or lighter but repeated) which caused fracture or chipping or deep crack.

The dental pulp, contained within the teeth, popularly known as the nerve of the tooth, is actually a highly specialized tissue consisting of arteries, veins, nerve endings and connective cells. In the age of development this tissue has the function of forming the calcified supporting structure of the tooth (dentin); in the adult, with completed growth, the pulp – now thinned – remains confined in the pulp chamber and in the root canals, with residual functions of sensitivity to the cold and hydration of the dentin.
When you arrive at this stage the conservative care that allows you to keep the tooth avoiding extraction is endodontic therapy, or root canal treatment or even more improperly devitalization. In general Endodontics aims to preserve teeth that have received serious damage to their structure that has led to infection and necrosis of the pulp, with acute or chronic repercussions of the surrounding tissues, more or less painful.