Endodontics – Expert Root Canal Treatment in Medellín, Colombia

At International Smiles Medellín, endodontic specialists provide precise and safe root canal treatments to preserve your teeth and prevent infection of the surrounding bone. Treating irreversible inflammation or dead tooth nerves, our procedures protect your overall oral and systemic health.

Experience a predictable, comfortable, and efficient endodontic treatment that restores your healthy smile and long-term dental wellness. Trust International Smiles for high-quality endodontics in Medellín, Colombia, where expert care meets holistic dental health.

Endodontic treatment

Procedure in which the inside nerve of the tooth is removed, the space where it was is cleaned and bacteria removed, then permanently sealed with a rubber like material. Then the tooth is ready to be reconstructed.

Endodontic treatment helps you maintain your natural smile, continue eating the foods you love and limits the need for ongoing dental work. With proper care, most teeth that have had root canal treatment can last a lifetime.

Endodontic Retreatment

 With proper care, you’ll keep teeth that have had root canal treatment for a lifetime but it’s possible for those teeth to heal improperly, becoming painful or diseased months or even years after treatment. If this happens to your treated teeth you have a second chance to save the tooth with retreatment.

it’s possible your tooth won’t heal as expected after initial treatment for a variety of reasons, including:

• • Narrow or curved canals were not treated during the initial procedure.
  • Complicated canal anatomy went undetected in the first procedure.
  • The placement of the crown or other restoration was delayed following the endodontic treatment.

In this case the endodontist will reopen your tooth and remove the filling materials that were placed in the root canals during the first procedure. The endodontist then carefully examines the tooth, looking for additional canals or new infection. The endodontist then removes any infection, cleans and shapes the canals, and places new filling materials. The opening is then sealed with a temporary filling. Once the tooth heals, which may require more than one visit, a new crown or other restoration is placed on the tooth to protect it.

Endodontic surgery

 When conventional root canal treatment fails with persistence of infection or pain, and the tooth has an existing crown, then the infection needs to be removed from the tip of the root, access is done by elevating the gums, A small filling may be placed to seal the end of the root canal and which afterwards gets repositioned and sutured. In the next few months, the bone will heal around the end of the root.

There’s no need to worry about surgery if your endodontist prescribes this additional measure. Advanced technologies like digital imaging and operating microscopes allow these procedures to be performed quickly, comfortably and successfully

There are many surgical procedures that can be performed to save a tooth. The most common is called an apicoectomy, or root-end resection, which may be needed when inflammation or infection persists in the bony area around the end of your tooth after a root canal procedure.