Calcified root

Are calcified root canals a growing problem? What causes calcified root canals? Calcified Root canals have always been a nightmare for Dentists and Endodontists alike, they are difficult to locate and are very time taking to locate and prepare. What is calcification in a root canal?

As the name suggests, Calcified Root Canals are calcium deposited in the root canals which are usually hollow or with the pulp tissue in it. What Does a Calcified Tooth Look Like?

When a tooth becomes calcified , its outer appearance may change. A root canal treatment with calcified canals is a special class of root canal work performed by Dr. A canal in a tooth is the space in the middle of a tooth root. This space normally contains pulp tissue which is mainly nerve and vascular tissue.

Calcified root canals are not only an issue for the aging population. Increased sports activity among children and high school aged kids has led to an increase in facial trauma. Tooth trauma can cause bleeding in the canals and this bleeding can become a focal point for calcification.

The root canal in a calcified tooth is always more difficult to locate and treat. All teeth have the potential to become calcified.

By no means has it been easy to locate, negotiate, and fully instrument calcified root canals. Calcification occurs slowly on healthy teeth as part of the natural aging process. Furthermore, an increasingly aging population, retaining their teeth longer, has translated into a growing number of root canal treatments that will be needed on calcified canals. It can happen after a traumatic injury – it’s the tooth’s attempt to protect itself against infection of the canal. Also, all teeth tend to have their canals get a little calcified as we get older.

As such, calcification is worst in the coronal third of roots. As one progresses apically, canals become more easily negotiable. The clinical implication is that it should become easier to negotiate canals with the apical progression of hand files. The older a person gets, the more the dentin seems to grow into the pulp chambers of the teeth, eventually blocking the canals completely.

This complicates root canal therapy because access to the infected root is difficult, sometimes even impossible. A calcified root canal is one of the most difficult situations to treat in regards to root canal therapy. It sounds as if you have two of them in one tooth. If one canal was previously treated (and the other two were left untreated), the chances of successfully treating the other two canals is poor.

The aortic root has been characterized by its close anatomical proximity to the cardiac chambers and the ostial. It is used when the nerve is completely dead and infecte and cannot be regrown. Sometimes calcium deposits make a canal too narrow for the instruments used in nonsurgical root canal treatment to reach the end of the root.

If your tooth has this “calcification,” your endodontist may perform endodontic surgery to clean and seal the remainder of the canal. If the root canal is calcified , there can be a problem removing the nerve in the tooth as well as widening the root canal with a file so that adequate filling can be done. Chronic inflammation in the dental pulp due to the presence of large, old fillings can increase the difficulty of root canal therapy.

The Endodontist, root canal specialist, many times cannot even open or negotiate these canals if root canal treatment is necessary. Unfortuneately, this is all the information I can give you, since I cannot perosnally examine you or look at your X-rays. These deposits can cause narrowing at the opening of the aortic valve. This narrowing can become severe enough to reduce blood flow through the aortic valve —.