Root Canal

The root canal is a treatment to remove an infection from the root of a tooth. If you have had root canal treatment, it means that your dentist has had to drill through the hard part of your tooth (the enamel and dentine) in order to access and clean out the root canals in your tooth.

The root canals themselves are tiny channels within a tooth that originate in a chamber called the root apex or root tip, which sits under the top layer of enamel at one end of your teeth. They allow blood vessels and nerves inside each tooth to send messages back from all parts of its surface to nerves in your jaw around the root apex where they join together into the main nerve bundle running out from deep within your jawbone.