Root Canal Treatment

Endodontic treatment at the Wessex Dental Specialist Centre is provided by Specialist in Endodontics, Ken Harper and Endodontist Stanley Wilby-Lopez.

Root Canal Treatment, or Endodontics involves treatment of the dental pulp, often requiring the cleansing and filling of spaces once filled with dental pulp.

                                                               Root Canal Treatment

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Endodontic treatment is necessary when the vital blood supply of the tooth is affected either by trauma or bacterial damage, usually before or after an abscess has formed around the tip of the tooth root.

Endodontics allow you to retain the use of the tooth especially where extraction would otherwise create cosmetic and other problems, possibly involving bridges, crowns or dentures.

Following completion of a root filling, the tooth usually needs restoring further. This can sometimes be by a crown or similar cast restoration.

Restorations such as crowns and similar cast restorations are made for you in our in-house state-of-the-art laboratory by highly experienced technicians.

You can benefit by having more than one type of specialist treatment at the same time and at the same location.

For more information on Endodontic treatment, please contact Ken or Stanley at the Wessex Dental Specialist Centre.