Archive for January 2012

I often hear patients say, “My neighbor says to not get a root canal, because he’s had three of them and each of those teeth have been pulled.  Do root canals work?”  Although root canal failure is a reality, it happens more often than it should.  When a root canal failure is present, root canal…

The day after I wrote my article entitled “Does Root Canal Treatment Really Work?” with an emphasis on root canal re-treatment, the very first case I completed was the following. This was a young female with a root canal done several years earlier by her general dentist.  She presented with swelling and deep pocketing around…