So, root canal, when a patient comes in with an extreme amount of pain, or they have an infection, but no pain, but they have a jaw infection, and they’re not even aware that they have an infection in the jaw from an old filling that was done many years ago, which might have caused damage to the nerve. The root canal is the easiest way to restore the functionality of the tooth. If we don’t address the infection, ultimately the infection gets out of control, it gets too big, and we end up losing the tooth entirely.
And root canal is the last-ditched effort to help save the tooth. Once that window for the root canal is closed, basically once the time has gone by and the infection has gotten too big, we are not even able, even with the root canal, the chance of survival for the tooth gets lesser and lesser as time goes on. Root canal is a fast, efficient way to help protect the tooth without us having to lose that tooth.