A root canal is a great treatment to help restore a tooth with large decay, or fracture to the nerve, however the treatment at times will not be indefinite. A retreatment of a tooth that already had a root canal is common. A tooth that had a root canal, but is beginning to hurt when you chew, or throb will potentially need to be retreated.

Yes, an infection can be seen on an x-ray which would signify that a tooth is in need of a root canal. This is often presented as a dark area surrounding the tip of the root of a tooth, or tooth decay or a large filling that is seen close to the nerve of the tooth.

When you mention an infection, do you mean a root canal problem in a tooth or gum disease in SOME of your teeth. An infection IN a tooth cannot spread to other teeth in most cases. Gum infections do affect more than one teeth in many cases. If you have gum problems, antibiotics is very good for the treatment of gum disease.

I hope you are feeling better after the first session. Usually, when a tooth has an infection, some dentists like to wait between 1 to 3 weeks before finishing it. They usually place an intra-tooth medicament which kills the bacteria between the canal system so that the tooth will be sterile before the dentist completes the root canal treatment.

There are multiple reasons why your face can swell after a root canal. To effectively answer the question, return to the place where the procedure was performed for a full evaluation. Your face is swollen because the cause of the infection (i.e., dead root tissue, decay/bacteria and antibodies all work to form purulent exudate or "pus") has not ...

It really depends on the case, but if your tooth is infected to begin with, sometimes during root canal procedure some more bacteria get out of the tooth into your jaw bone. To help with this additional bacterial infection, antibiotics are prescribed. That's the reason sometimes a tooth hurts more than before the root canal.

Hello : Without knowing your medical history and the history of the affected tooth, it is a high probably that you been having a systemic, chronic infection, that can literally drain the body. It is also possible that the stress level hormones in your body is elevated, given the severity of the the infected root canal.

A warm salt water rinse is an antiseptic technique. It is used to keep things clean, mainly the gingiva (gum tissues). When a root canal is performed a rubber dam is usually used and this is to help keep the area clean. The canal of a tooth is normally bacteria-free and the goal at the end of the root canal is to keep it bacteria-free.

You may have possibly swallowed some of the root canal irrigating fluid. Contact the dental office ASAP.

The answer depends on what the source of the infection is. If the tooth has a root canal infection caused by decay or trauma, the infection generally will not infect other teeth. If the source of the infection is a periodontal, due to the presence of deep pockets around the teeth, the source of the bacteria can infect other teeth in the mouth.