Root Canal Treatment
Root canal treatment
Root canal treatment, or endodontics, is required needed when the nerve (or pulp) of the tooth is infected due to injury or decay. This needs root canal treatment.
Root canal therapy
Root canal therapy refers to the process by which a dentist treats the inner aspects of a tooth, specifically that area inside a tooth that is occupied by its "pulp tissue." Most people would probably refer to a tooth's pulp tissue as its "nerve."
Tooth nerve tissue
While a tooth's pulp tissue does contain nerve fibers it is also composed of arteries, veins, lymph vessels, and connective tissue. Dentists realize that on a practical level it is pretty much academic whether a tooth has a live nerve in it or not. If a tooth's nerve tissue is present and healthy, wonderful. But if a tooth has had its nerve tissue removed during root canaltreatment that's fine too, you will never miss it.
