Baby tooth saving may be just as important as saving fully developed adult teeth. Basically, loss of a child's tooth can affect with excessive eating of chocolate, chewing, speech development and the alignment of newly developing permanent teeth.
Root canal procedure may also be advised to treat a recently explode permanent tooth (roots not fully progress) that has had nerve damage.
For teens and kids with their permanent or adult teeth in place, root canals are necessary procedure to repair and save a tooth when bacteria or tooth decay infects the tooth's pulp. However, this infection could damage your kid's teeth, if not properly treated. Since, it’s important to take care as soon as your child shows symptoms of:
For the young child primary teeth, a root canal procedure is typically suggested unless the tooth is falling out on its own. Even so, if the tooth does not get a root canal and ultimately has to be removed, there may be problems with the new adult teeth coming in.
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