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Toothache Help

Changing Your View Of Root Canals

Toothache help can't arrive fast enough if you're the one with a severe toothache. Unfortunately there are now some very unreliable sources of information available on how to cure a toothache.

I have read many articles on the internet that give instructions on how to treat toothaches at home. This information comes from people who have no training in the diagnosis and treatment of dental disease.

I am not at all opposed to a holistic approach to health care. Alternative approaches have their place in many areas of medicine.

But toothache help offered by many of these non-professional sources can cause you more harm and lead to more complex treatments.

Most of the time you are being told the treatment based only your symptom of pain. Treating a symptom without an accurate diagnosis of the cause can actually be a dangerous course of action.

Many people aren't even aware that a toothache can be a sign of a more serious medical condition. These include sinus infections and TMJ syndrome that can feel like a toothache.

But even more seriously is the fact that angina or a heart attack can cause tooth or jaw pain. This is one very good reason to see your dentist when you experience pain in or around your mouth.

An accurate diagnosis of the source of your toothache is essential to proper treatment. You should always seek professional care for toothache help.

Having said that we can now point out that:

Most toothache help is sought for pain that is caused by a diseased dental pulp.

That's what I'll be discussing on this page. Although there are other causes of dental pain, the diseased pulp is the most common.

As an endodontist I see patients every day for toothache relief. Most of these toothaches are caused by:

tooth decay
previous dental procedures
cracked tooth
trauma

What is the dental pulp?

It is the soft tissue on the inside of your tooth. It contains:

blood vessels
nerve tissue
lymphatic vessels
specialized cells

The pulp is important because its cells have the potential to build enamel, dentin, and cementum. These are the hard structures of a tooth.

In fact, when you are young these cells build your tooth for you. That's why the pulp is so very important to protect in young children. If it becomes damaged the tooth will not develop.

After your tooth has completed its development the dental pulp has no function in maintaining your tooth.

Although very small in size, a diseased pulp can send you seeking toothache help very quickly when it becomes inflamed.

The reason for this is the pulp's location. It is trapped within the confines of the hard tooth structure.

That means there is little or no room to swell when it gets inflamed. If you get inflammation in your arm it will hurt but there is some room for swelling to relieve the pressure that builds. This can keep the pain from becoming intense while inflamed.

But the pulp can't swell. So, when it gets inflamed the pressure builds quickly and toothache help must come quickly.

The only way to get sufficient toothache relief is to remove this inflamed pulp tissue. The procedure for doing this is called endodontic therapy or root canal treatment.

The dental pulp can go through the stages of inflammation quickly and at times there will be no pain at all. However, the pulp will eventually die and then you have an abscessed tooth (infected tooth).

The pain this eventually causes actually comes from the tissue at the tip of the root. There may even be some swelling alongside the tooth. Toothache help in the case of an abscessed tooth also comes by having endodontic therapy.

I know you were probably hoping for toothache help other than the words "root canal."

But I can tell you that after performing thousands of root canals that most are done very comfortably.

In fact I have many patients that fall asleep during the procedure; without sedation!

I've written a short book, The Relaxed Root Canal , to help reduce your fears and anxiety about root canals. In this book I answer over 80 questions that will help eliminate your doubts and confusion.

If you see your dentist for toothache help you may find out you need a root canal. There's one question you need to ask BEFORE you have your root canal. I give you that question in Chapter 5.