When the Tooth Nerve Raises the Alarm
An inflammation of the dental pulp caused by caries, deep trauma, or an accident is a serious, usually painful infection that can burden the entire body.
- •Throbbing Pain: Many patients report sudden, sharp, or strongly throbbing pain that often intensifies significantly when lying down or at night.
- •Increased Temperature Sensitivity: The tooth reacts massively and persistently to cold (cold water) or heat (hot coffee/tea).
- •Pressure Sensitivity: When biting down or even with light touch, the tooth feels 'too high' or very pressure-sensitive.
If this inflammation is ignored, it can spread via the root tip into the surrounding jawbone and cause abscesses.
Precise Cleaning of the Root Canal
The goal of endodontics is to remove the bacteria-colonised tissue from the tooth interior and the sometimes highly branched root canal system as thoroughly as possible, without having to extract the tooth as a whole.
At the MEDICAL ART clinic in Munich Bogenhausen, we perform these technique-sensitive treatments with great care, using magnification technology and highly flexible, machine-driven specialist instruments.
Technology for Higher Success Rates
Endometric Length Measurement
We electronically measure the exact length of the root canals to perform cleaning precisely to the root tip.
Working with Magnification
The very fine, microscopically small root canals can barely be found and cleaned with the naked eye. We use loupes to reliably find and prepare even fine branch
Machine-Assisted Canal Preparation
Highly flexible rotating instruments prepare the very fine canals in a substance-preserving manner, while special irrigation protocols eliminate remaining bacte
Secure Seal
We then fill the cleaned area with gutta-percha (a biocompatible rubber material) and seal the tooth.
Experiences of Our Patients
Transparency Before the Procedure
Saving your own tooth long-term is very often the most sensible and most natural solution. However, the effort involved in a complex root canal treatment is high and requires state-of-the-art technology and sufficient time.
We discuss the treatment effort and expected costs with you transparently from the outset.
Root Canal Treatment and Insurance Subsidies
Reimbursement guidelines distinguish between standard procedures and modern, complex preparations.
- ✓<strong>Treatment and cost plan:</strong> For time-intensive methods that offer a significantly higher prognosis (e.g., length measurement, specific machine files, special ultrasonic irrigations), a privately borne out-of-pocket share is generally required.
- ✓<strong>Consider follow-up costs:</strong> A successful endodontic treatment is in many cases more economical than later replacement of the extracted tooth (e.g., with an implant).
Course of Root Canal Treatment
Diagnostics & Anaesthesia
A digital X-ray gives us information about the degree of inflammation. After a gentle local anaesthetic, we carefully test whether the tooth is deeply anaesthetised.
Access and Preparation
We create a gentle access to the nerve tissue. With the finest needles and machine-driven files, the diseased tissue is carefully removed from the canals.
Intensive Disinfection
The canals are thoroughly irrigated with special medical solutions to bacterially clean even the deepest branches.
Root Filling and Restoration
The cleaned space is then tightly sealed. Since root-treated teeth can become brittle over the years, they often subsequently receive stabilising partial crowns or crowns for long-term protection.
Is the Treatment Painful?
Many patients associate the term 'root canal treatment' with the horror stories of past decades. This is unfounded today. The greatest source of pain is the inflamed nerve itself, with which you come to our practice. Modern and well-tolerated anaesthetics allow us in the vast majority of cases to make the treatment largely pain-free. After the anaesthesia wears off, the throbbing toothache is usually gone.
Mehr zu unseren Comfort-Optionen →The best dental prosthetic that exists is often still your own natural tooth root. That is why it is worthwhile to fight consistently for it.
The Team at MEDICAL ART
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Don't hesitate with sudden sensitivity or throbbing pain. The sooner we act, the higher the chance of tooth preservation.
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