Root Canals in Denver

Root canals have a historically undeserved poor reputation.  The brunt of many joke is … I would rather have a root canal than _________! The idea conveyed is  a root canal is something to be avoided at all cost. Denver Dentists Dr. James DeLapp and Dr. H. Candace DeLapp provide endodontic therapy (root canal) in their Denver and Highlands Ranch Dental office.

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A vast majority of root canals are not painful

A vast majority of root canals are not painfull. In these situation the treatment is no worse that having a dental filling completed. It is true that in a minority of cases root canal are uncomfortable or even painful.  Why is this? Our Denver dentists have found that many (but not all) painful root canals are on teeth with significant infections.  Most of these have occured because the patient has delayed seeing a dentist until they “had to”. Our Denver dentist opinion from years of experience is  local anesthetic works poorly in an area where there is significant infection. The challenges becomes trying to find an area where local anesthetics will work.  In some instances there is no good area to go to.

Get your tooth treated sooner than later

To mitigate the risk of painful root canals our Denver dentists recommend that you seek treatment sooner than later.  In addition…. as a general rule of thumb… root canals are 90-95% successful.  That means 5-10% of root canals fail or do not work.  This failure rate is significantly increased if there is a delay in beginning treatment and a significant infection is allow to occur. In some of these instances root canal and antibiotic treatment  with amoxicillin (e.g.) is replaced by a root canal or extraction and a more complex (and expensive) antibiotic

Call our Denver dentists today and make an appointment

Please feel free to call our office and make an appointment as soon as possible. They can be reached at (303) 694-9740.Waiting late in the week (Friday) after it has been hurting all week in not a very good strategy. If pain hurts for hours or hurts when you tap on the tooth that “can” be an indication of a tooth needing some type of treatment.  Sometimes extracting a tooth  may end up being your only option.

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