How to Treat Root Canal Pain

Video Transcript

"Are you having pain from, radiating from your tooth. Well, my name's Michelle, and I'm a Dental Assistant, and I'm going to explain to you on how you can treat root canal pain. First of all, you definitely want to contact your general dentist and inform him that you are having pain. He might want to bring you in just for a consultation to see if it's exactly a root canal issue. If it is, you might need to have what we call is a root canal therapy, and what it that does is that procedure actually removes the nerve from your root canal, which then in return will lessen your pain, because you will no longer have any more blood sup flow flying to that tooth. So once when you remove the nerve, you're removing the blood sup flow, and you're also removing the pain. Also, you could, until you call your general dentist, you can get what we, an antibiotic is ov from the pharmacy, or you could purchase like over-the-counter medication as far as Advil, Tylenol. All of those will help lessen your root canal pain. It won't take it away automatically, but it'll lessen it. You would definitely need to see your general dentist, so therefore; he would be able to treat the root canal, and in return, take away the pain completely. He might want to prescribe you an antibiotic for you to take, which would remove any infection that you might have in your root canal. Also too, he might prescribe is like a crown, which is a covering of the tooth, because that will prevent any pain that you might have to that root, and prevent any future pain that you might have. Rinsing with warm salt water rinses is a great way to preventing root canal pain. It's going to soothe your tooth, it's going to soothe your gums. And these are all great methods and ways on how you can prevent root canal pain, but you definitely want to call your general dentist, and therefore, he would be able to help you out any further. My name's Michelle, and I'm a Dental Assistant with Solutionz, and I just explained to you on how you can prevent root canal pain."