Root Canals - Woodland Hills, CA

If a tooth has a severe infection, then it might be necessary to clean out the root so that the infection can be eliminated. As a comprehensive dental care provider, Woodland Hills Dental Care provides root canal therapy to residents of Woodland Hills and surrounding communities. A root canal treatment can be used to save the tooth, giving you the option to protect your natural smile for many years. With advanced training and state of the art equipment, Our team makes endodontic therapy a much more streamlined and enjoyable experience for patients.

What Is A Root Canal?

A root canal therapy sounds scary, but the procedure is hardly any more complicated than an ordinary filling. To do a filling, your dentist removes decayed areas from the surface of a tooth, while for a root canal she removes the dead nerve from the center. This may require two appointments, but luckily, a dead nerve cannot feel any pain! If a dead nerve is discovered early enough, a root canal can actually help you keep the affected tooth in place. If left untreated, however, there can be serious consequences, such as painful abscesses in the surrounding tissue. An abscess shows up on an x-ray as a dark spot below the root tip, and you may not feel any pain because you don’t have an abscess, yet. But root structure can be complicated, and a specialist called an Endodontist may be needed to find all of the branching pathways of the root pulp.