{"id":32,"date":"2015-06-16T14:45:30","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T14:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orange-shrew-941945.hostingersite.com\/blog\/?p=32"},"modified":"2015-12-01T21:49:42","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T21:49:42","slug":"what-to-expect-during-a-root-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianhillsdentistry.com\/blog\/indian-hills-dentistry\/what-to-expect-during-a-root-canal\/","title":{"rendered":"What to expect during a root canal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyday dentists everywhere see patients with dental pain and advise a <strong>root canal<\/strong> as treatment to resolve that pain.\u00a0 If your <strong>Murfreesboro<\/strong> dentist has scheduled a <strong>root canal<\/strong>, it will help you to know <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">what to expect during a <strong>root canal<\/strong><\/span>.\u00a0\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Your <strong>Murfreesboro<\/strong> dentist may recommend a <strong>root cana<\/strong>l when you\u2019re in danger of losing a permanent tooth.\u00a0 To better understand the procedure and prepare yourself for a <strong>root canal<\/strong> you should familiarize yourself with the anatomy of a tooth.\u00a0 During a <strong>root canal<\/strong>, after numbing the area around your tooth, your dentist will make an opening in the enamel of your tooth and the hard substance known as dentin below the enamel to begin cleaning and removing its insides.\u00a0 The part of the tooth that is usually inflamed and in need of removal is the pulp, which your dentist will remove with special tools called endodontic files designed for the <strong>root canal<\/strong> treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Although the pulp of your tooth is what keeps teeth alive and healthy by providing nourishment via blood vessels especially during development of your teeth, you can still retain the tooth treated by a <strong>root canal<\/strong>.\u00a0 After the inflamed pulp is removed, your dentist will complete the <strong>root canal<\/strong> treatment by filling the canals of your tooth with a material called gutta-percha.\u00a0 Your <strong>Murfreesboro<\/strong> dentist will then place a temporary filling in the opening and you\u2019ll have a crown placed over the tooth during the same appointment or at a later one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyday dentists everywhere see patients with dental pain and advise a root canal as treatment to resolve that pain.\u00a0 If your Murfreesboro dentist has scheduled a root canal, it will help you to know what to expect during a root &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/indianhillsdentistry.com\/blog\/indian-hills-dentistry\/what-to-expect-during-a-root-canal\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indian-hills-dentistry","tag-root-canal-murfreesboro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianhillsdentistry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianhillsdentistry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianhillsdentistry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianhillsdentistry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianhillsdentistry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/indianhillsdentistry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33,"href":"https:\/\/indianhillsdentistry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/33"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianhillsdentistry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianhillsdentistry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianhillsdentistry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianhillsdentistry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}