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Endodontics, root canal pictures showing treatment of tooth pain, irreversible pulpitis. Photo 1) Endodontic access attained and showing the distal and two mesial root canals. 2) Lateral condensation of gutta percha in the distal canal after the master cone was cemented in place. 3) The auxilary point is placed in the distal canal after the spreader was removed. 4) All three canals are obturated with gutta percha. A cotton pellet and Cavit will be placed as a temporary dental filling. |
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Endodontics, root canal treatment for tooth pain, pulpitis symptoms. Three endodontic files placed in a maxillary molar to verify the correct lengths in the x-ray, radiograph. The dental pulp or tooth nerve is a blood vessel and nerve that is contained within a hollow void in the middle of the tooth called a root canal.
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How to pictures of root canal treatment. Endodontic technique in an upper left canine tooth. Photo 1) The endo file is in place within the root canal prior to the measurement radiograph, x-ray. Photo 2) Lateral condensation of gutta percha after the master cone with root canal cement is placed. Photos 3) and 4) Heating the endodontic condenser to vertically condense and sever the gutta percha at the pulpal chamber floor. |
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Endodontics, root canal treatment for tooth pain.
Photo 1) How to endodontic technique in an upper left canine tooth. Photo 2) The tooth is surrounded by a rubber dam and a butterfly clamp. Photo 3) This mirror image shows the obturated root canal. Photo 4) The extirpated pulpal tissue is shown. |
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Endodontics, root canal treatment for tooth pain, irreversible pulpitis. 1) Tooth #11 pre-operative x-ray film shows a periapical radiolucency indicating the presence of periapical pathology. 2) The final radiograph shows the gutta percha reaching the apex of the tooth root.
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Endodontics, root canal therapy for tooth pain, irreversible pulpitis. The root canal filling material - gutta percha - should extend to the end of the tooth root apex when endodontic therapy is properly performed. |
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Endodontics, root canal treatment for tooth pain, irreversible pulpitis symptoms. Pulpotomy in an upper right first molar tooth. Photo 1) Initial image of the molar. Huge dental caries - tooth cavity - was visible in the x-ray. Photo 2) Initial preparation for tooth decay removal. Photo 3) Pulpotomy performed within the pulp chamber. Photo 4) Pulpal nerve tissue being removed (arrows). |
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Endodontics, root canal treatment for tooth pain.
Cotton is placed in the root canal access to facilitate the location of the root canals during the subsequent restorative dental filling procedures. Cavit is placed as a temporary tooth filling.
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Endodontic root canal surgery for tooth pain and infection from a failed root canal. Surgical how to pictures. Apicoectomy and retrograde filling. 1) Upper left lateral incisor shown with tissue reflected. 2) Initial penetration through cortical bone. 3) Tooth apex located. 4) Tooth root after sectioning off the apex. 5) Application of Mineral Trioxide Aggregate (MTA) retrograde filling material. 6) - 7) MTA in place. 8) Surgical closure. |
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Preventive endodontics, root canal treatment to prevent tooth pain in a smile makeover patient who suffered from dental anxiety phobia - fear of the dentist. The patient was a pretty, 33 year-old female. Treatment included porcelain fused to metal crown & bridge, root canal therapy on all teeth abutments, root tip extractions, and facial dental bonding on both upper lateral incisor teeth. The upper anterior root canal and dental crowns were first completed to show her how pretty her teeth could look and that it could be accomplished quickly and painlessly. Extractions of the hopeless teeth were all completed at one time and initiated early to allow time for healing before dental bridgework. Then root canal therapy was performed on the posterior abutment teeth before their preparation for bridgework. The patient experienced minimal post-operative tooth pain. Ironically, we frequently recommend preventive root canal for nervous dental patients because when the tooth nerve is gently removed patients typically won't have tooth pain when they leave. |
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Endodontics, root canal treatment for dental pain, pulpitis. These pictures show treatment tooth decay in a broken upper lateral incisor tooth adjacent to a palatally-displaced supernumerary tooth. Photos 1) - 2) Initial presentation. Note the broken, decayed lateral and the palatal location of the adjacent supernumerary tooth. Photos 3) Close up of tooth decay in the broken lateral tooth and the adjacent palatally-displaced supernumerary tooth. 4) X-ray, radiograph. Photo 5) The same tooth after gum surgery and initial tooth preparation. Photo 6) Placement of the temporary dental crown. Note that acrylic extended from the temporary on the lateral to the supernumerary to provide initial stability of the temporary crown until root canal and a cast post and core was placed. Photo 7) Radiograph of the final root canal therapy, cast post and core and crown. Photo 8) Final result. |
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Neglect of an endodontically treated molar tooth - this means that the tooth had been treated with root canal but the necessary additional dentistry like a dental crown was not done afterwards. Patients should understand that root canal is typically only one of several procedures that a tooth will need and not completing ALL procedures will likely lead to a premature and expensive failure that could result in tooth extraction.
Treatment of a big tooth cavity in a molar that had previous root canal therapy. Dental bonding was being placed at this time - instead of a dental crown - until after the completion of teeth braces. 1) Neglected lower molar that had an adequate root canal yet large dental caries under the amalgam silver dental filling. 2) Photo of the extent of the tooth decay after removal of the silver filling. 3) Tooth decay removed. Note the gutta percha coming out of the three orifices. 4) The teeth bonding filling restoration. The point here is that a bonded restoration can be placed even when a crown is obviously indicated. The dental crown will be placed after the patient completes orthodontics. |
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Dental bridge repair showing tooth decay extending to the root canal filling material, gutta percha. 1) X-ray after endodontics. The root canal itself did not seem subject to external resorption. 2) Gingivectomy. Note the still unusual look of the facial tooth decay. 3) Following dental decay removal. Note the communication to the gutta percha. 4) The teeth bonding dental restoration. |
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Information about these dental photos
In medicine and dentistry "left" and "right" are based upon the orientation of the patient's body and not how they appear in a photograph of a smile. For example, a reference to the upper left teeth will actually appear to be on the right side when viewing a picture of the face and similarly an upper right tooth will appear to be on the left side.
Many words in dentistry like oral and mouth have a similar meaning and are frequently used together to help our readers find specific words they best understand. This is particularly important because a majority of our visitors are from countries where English is not their primary language. Maxilla or maxillary refer to the upper jaw. Mandible or mandibular refer to the lower jaw.
There are many other similar word combinations used throughout this website because our pages are read by patients and dentists. A few of the most common are discussed here. Tooth decay, tooth cavity and dental caries all mean the same thing. Tooth, teeth and dental are also frequently interchanged as in teeth veneers or dental veneer laminate. Oral rehabilitation and dental reconstruction mean smile makeover. The word for x-ray may be used with or without a hyphen (this is true for other words too) and can also be called a radiograph.
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