Your cavity is deep, so let's remove the nerve. You need root canal treatment. When told this at a dental clinic, many people ...

Even for teeth considered 'difficult to save and requiring extraction,' can we explore preservation methods depending on the ...

A Swedish case report documents how retained wisdom tooth roots migrated away from the inferior alveolar nerve after ...

Sometimes, a tooth can become so severely damaged or infected that your dentist might discuss a couple of different kinds of treatment plans with you. The first is a root canal, and the other is a ...

Root canal treatment is complicated: You're working inside the tooth where you can't see anything, and the further back you go in the mouth, the more difficult it becomes," Wigsten says. "Root canal ...

The second step of the treatment was to perform an atraumatic extraction. Atraumatic means less damage to the bone surrounding the root and less pressure on the root of the tooth, allowing removal of ...