In April’s first blog we didn’t delve into April showers and May flowers. We didn’t talk about chocolate Easter bunnies or those tulips coming up in your garden. We talked about the root canal. Fer fun! Our aim was to dispel some of the incredible misinformation that surrounds this important dental procedure. Root canals aren’t …
That headline alone is enough to make most people run for the hills or go hide under the boardwalk over at Jenkinson’s. The poor root canal — it needs a new PR firm or publicist. Everyone in the back of their minds equates a root canal with some form of medieval torture, somewhere between the …
If there is one procedure that really gets a bad rap, it’s the root canal. For some reason, people equate this procedure with extreme pain, although it is no more painful than having a cavity filled. Plus, the rumors of medieval torture keep many patients from enjoying the true benefit of a root canal — …
There are plaques you want to get, like MVP of the softball tournament. And there is plaque you don’t want to get, especially under your gums — dental plaque. When you develop dental plaque under your gums, the team at Gentle Dental needs to remove it with root scaling and planing. Who needs root scaling …
If you’re old enough, you probably remember the Blue Oyster Cult song titled “Don’t Fear the Reaper.” That’s a dumb title — everyone’s scared of that dude in the black hooded cloak. But you shouldn’t group root canals from the Gentle Dental team in there as something else to fear. Root canals are actually a …
Root canals either make people think of a barge being towed up the Erie Canal, or the term makes them run away as fast as possible. But what do you actually know about root canals? We like our patients to be educated at Gentle Dental, so here we go. What is a root canal? While …
Generally when people hear about canals, they either think of the romantic canals of Venice or the industrial miracles of the Panama Canal and such. They don’t think about their teeth. Nor do they want to! But a root canal can be a lifeboat for a tooth, saving an otherwise sinking ship. What is the …
In the past few decades, dentistry has changed dramatically. What once used to be a field reserved for dental emergencies and reconstruction procedures, full of scary tools and lots of pain, is now a medical field where kids get free trinkets for being good during their quick check-up. What instigated this change? How has it …
Just the sound of root canal therapy makes most of us cringe and anxious. However, with just enough knowledge about how the procedure will go, you will be able to gain more confidence to face it. Don’t leave your tooth untreated. Know what to expect from a root canal treatment and prepare to face the …
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