What Happens to Teeth After a Root Canal?

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After the root canal treatment, for the most part, that tooth should be back to normal function. We all know that the root canal tooth is never a hundred percent like your normal tooth. That is one of the reasons why we don't like to do the root canal treatment unless we really need to do so. When we do root canals that means we remove the blood line, the blood supply, the food supply for the tooth structure. In doing so, this tooth, once the root canal treatment has been preformed, this tooth becomes more brittle. That is why when we do a root canal we recommend doing a crown to cover the whole tooth, to kind of hold the whole tooth intact so it can still function as normal as possible. The truth is that; the root canal treatment, because of the blood supply being removed, it becomes a very brittle tooth as time goes on. So, we always tell patients; now you have the treatment done but we don't recommend you to be chewing on hard, hard food. You should basically chew on regular texture food. Then, you'll be okay but if you try to go in there and chew, crushing ice, and crushing macadamia nuts and stuff like that, then long term wise that tooth is going to become very brittle. It will have a higher tendency of fracture. That's one of the things that we do see. That fractures do occur. If fracture does occur, for the most part, you lose the tooth and we have to extract the tooth.

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