Endodontic Specialist: Specialists in Saving Teeth

An endodontic specialist is a dentist with two or more years of additional study beyond dental school. In these additional two years, a dentist learns about specific causes of toothache and how to relieve pain with root canal procedures efficiently.

If a tooth is grossly carious and advised to be extracted, that is the time you should visit an endodontist. They try their best to save your tooth by treating it with specialized techniques. This is the reason endodontic specialists happily call themselves Specialists in Saving Teeth. The advanced training given to an endodontist includes special root canal treatment techniques and pulp-related procedures in greater depth. They make the diagnosis and plan treatment for more difficult cases according to the severity. For this purpose, many general dentists choose an endodontist to refer their patients for specialized treatment.

Skills of an Endodontic Specialist:

• A Root Canal Expert: An endodontic specialist focuses entirely on treatments of the dental pulp, completing multiple root canal treatments in a week than a general dentist. They commit their time to diagnose and treat tooth pain-related cases and find the cause of oral and facial pain that has been difficult to diagnose.
• Advanced Education: An endodontic specialist has two to three years of added education in an advanced program in endodontics after completing dental school, focusing on problems related to dental pulp and how a professional endodontist should treat them.
• Pain Management Experts: Proficient in managing anesthesia, endodontic specialists treat patients who are conventionally not responsive to anesthesia. They use specialized methods to ensure patients are completely comfortable during procedures and relieve tooth pain, pulp infection, or inflammation after root canal treatment.
• Advanced Technology: Endodontists use specific materials and equipment designed to make procedures more comfortable and successful. They utilize digital radiographs and 3-D imaging to see the detailed structure of root canals and any infections. Dental microscopes are used to have a clear vision of root canals for careful treatment.

If you've experienced a severe toothache, visit us at Willowdale Endodontics before it gets late. Endodontic specialists can usually relieve your dental pain and get you back to work on the same day.