{"id":2997,"date":"2019-02-27T15:18:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T15:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clinicadentalchampsaur.com\/?p=1852"},"modified":"2026-10-05T15:28:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T15:28:59","slug":"root-canal-treatment-in-panama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clinicadentalchampsaur.com\/en\/root-canal-treatment-in-panama\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the symptoms that indicate that I need a root canal treatment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experiencing dental pain or has your dentist told you that you need a root canal treatment?<\/p>\n<p>Root canal treatment is an often straightforward procedure to relieve dental pain and save your teeth.<\/p>\n<p>Patients typically need a root canal when there is inflammation or infection in the roots of a tooth.<\/p>\n<p>During\u00a0Root Canal Treatment in Panama, an endodontist who specializes in such treatment carefully removes the pulp inside the tooth, cleans, disinfects and shapes the root canals, and places a filling to seal the space.<\/p>\n<h2>Root Canal Treatment in Panama<\/h2>\n<p><strong>What are the signs of needing endodontic treatment?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Signs to look for include pain, prolonged sensitivity to heat or cold, tenderness to touch and chewing, discoloration of the tooth, and swelling, drainage and tenderness in the lymph nodes as well as nearby bone and gum tissues.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, however, there are no symptoms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Treatment is needed for infected or inflamed pulp<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pulp infection and inflammation most often occur if you have:<br \/>\n\u2022 A cracked or chipped tooth<br \/>\n\u2022 A deep cavity or filling<br \/>\n\u2022 Other serious injury to the tooth<\/p>\n<p>All of these can allow bacteria to enter the pulp and cause infection and\/or inflammation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Root Canal Treatment steps<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Root canal therapy may involve more than one visit to us.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We will perform the following steps to save your tooth:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Your tooth will be numbed for your comfort. A thin, flexible sheet of latex or non-latex material called a rubber dam will be placed over your tooth to keep it dry. An opening will be made through the crown of the tooth into the pulp chamber.<br \/>\n\u2022 Your tooth\u2019s nerve or pulp will be removed from the pulp chamber and the canal of each root of the tooth. Each root canal will be cleaned, shaped and disinfected so that it can be filled.<br \/>\n\u2022 We may place medicine in the pulp chamber and root canal(s) to help treat the infection.<br \/>\n\u2022 The treated root canals will be filled with a rubber-like material to seal them.<br \/>\n\u2022 A temporary filling will be placed in your tooth to prevent infection of the root canals.<br \/>\n\u2022 It is possible that you will prescribed antibiotics if the infection has spread beyond the end of the root(s).<br \/>\n\u2022 Finally, we will remove the temporary filling and restores the tooth with a crown or a permanent filling to strengthen it and improve the way it looks.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clinicadentalchampsaur.com\/en\/#cita\/\">Book your appointment<\/a> now for Root Canal Treatment in Panama<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experiencing dental pain or has your dentist told you that you need a root canal treatment? Root canal treatment is an often straightforward procedure to relieve dental pain and save your teeth. Patients typically need a root canal when there is inflammation or infection in the roots of a tooth. During\u00a0Root Canal Treatment in Panama, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sin-categorizar","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinicadentalchampsaur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinicadentalchampsaur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinicadentalchampsaur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinicadentalchampsaur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinicadentalchampsaur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/clinicadentalchampsaur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3296,"href":"https:\/\/clinicadentalchampsaur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997\/revisions\/3296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinicadentalchampsaur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinicadentalchampsaur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinicadentalchampsaur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}