Description: Visit skilled Endodontist San Antonio TX, Drs Rick Davis & Rick Schwartz at Endodontic Consultants of San Antonio to save your natural teeth
I am Dr Rick Davis and I’d like to welcome you to our website and explain a bit about our practice. And I am Dr Rick Schwartz, your endodontist located at San Antonio Texas. During our office we specialize in enodontics which is the dental specialty that treats pain and infection in teeth and in most cases by performing root canal treatment. Because many people are not familiar with root canal treatment, we thought we would spend a couple of minutes answering some of the questions we often get. The three
To answer the first two questions, What is Root Canal Treatment?, and Why do we sometimes need Root Canal Treatment?
Inside of each tooth is living tissue and it is often called the nerve because it contains nerve tissue, When this nerve tissue is injured it causes pain. Nerve injury usually involves infection and or inflammation. It can come from several sources including deep cavities, deep fillings, crowns, cracks or trauma. If the tooth is injured to the point that it causes pain, it may be necessary to remove the nerve to eliminate the pain or infection. The space created by the removal of the nerve is then filled a