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How To Prepare For A Root Canal

By southernendo | May 30, 2023 | Comments Off on How To Prepare For A Root Canal
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Finding out you need a root canal might initially bring with it a sense of anxiety, especially if it is a new experience for you, but let us assure you a root canal is a very straightforward and relatively pain-free experience. Beyond the application of localized anesthesia and some mild irritation and swelling following the…

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What Can I Eat After a Root Canal

By southernendo | May 10, 2023 | Comments Off on What Can I Eat After a Root Canal
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Root canals have become a relatively straightforward procedure. It is an outpatient dental procedure that will target an injured or dead tooth and extract all the pulp and damaged nerve endings from within that given tooth. Thanks to technological improvements, the hole needed to make an incision into the tooth and extract the tooth’s innards…

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Tips To Relieve Root Canal Anxiety

By southernendo | May 2, 2023 | Comments Off on Tips To Relieve Root Canal Anxiety
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Anxiety over a medical procedure is entirely natural. It doesn’t matter if you’re going in to repair an injured foot or require oral surgery; a feeling of uneasiness is familiar and can happen to anyone.  Many individuals have an uneasiness when visiting the dentist. Perhaps when they were younger, they had to deal with many…

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Top Dental Habits To Save Your Natural Teeth

By southernendo | May 1, 2023 | Comments Off on Top Dental Habits To Save Your Natural Teeth
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When asking about life lessons of the previous generations, one of the most common responses is, “Take care of your teeth.” Once you grow into adult chompers, they are your only pair. While many animals in the wild will continually grow and replace their teeth throughout their lifetime, you have your one and only adult…

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What Is Endodontic Retreatment?

By southernendo | Mar 29, 2023 | Comments Off on What Is Endodontic Retreatment?
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If you have had a root canal procedure performed in the past, you likely went into it, assuming you would have everything taken care of. The pain you were experiencing would go away, the discomfort while eating would vanish, and after the inflammation in the gums died down following the root canal, you would return…

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My Root Canal Failed, What Do I Do?

By southernendo | Feb 23, 2023 | Comments Off on My Root Canal Failed, What Do I Do?
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You go into your root canal appointment assuming it is going to take care of all the pain you’ve been experiencing. Whether you are experiencing shooting pain through your jaw whenever drinking something hot, biting into something cold, or when encountering any type of pressure applied to it, a root canal is all about correcting…

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Top 5 Causes Of A Cracked Tooth

By southernendo | Feb 8, 2023 | Comments Off on Top 5 Causes Of A Cracked Tooth
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Cracked teeth can be a cause for concern. And rightfully so. If not treated quickly, a cracked tooth will become incredibly painful, and you risk losing the tooth due to sustained damage. It also may impact neighboring teeth, causing these teeth to shift to fill in the space of the cracked tooth. Basically, it creates…

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Benefits Of The Gentlewave Root Canal Procedures

By southernendo | Jan 25, 2023 | Comments Off on Benefits Of The Gentlewave Root Canal Procedures
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The idea of having a root canal is enough to send a shiver down your spine. The name itself isn’t at all sunshine and rainbows, but it’s a necessary procedure if you damage your root’s internal nerve endings. Thankfully, while the name itself can be a little unsettling for some, there have been a number…

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What To Do If Your Tooth Breaks?

By southernendo | Jan 10, 2023 | Comments Off on What To Do If Your Tooth Breaks?
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Accidents happen. Even if you do your best to prevent them, time and time again, fate has a way of intervening. Maybe it’s slipping on an icy sidewalk or slipping a step. Perhaps you’re playing catch with your son, and the ball tips off your glove into your mouth, or a very animated individual’s arm…

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The Most Common Endodontic Diagnostic Tests

By southernendo | Dec 21, 2022 | Comments Off on The Most Common Endodontic Diagnostic Tests
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The internal health of your teeth is the top priority for any endodontist. To determine what is going on with your teeth or causing you pain, it is necessary to conduct a series of tests to identify what the inside of your teeth looks like.  But how exactly do endodontists such as our staff here…

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