A Root Canal is a brilliant dental procedure that saves teeth; there is nothing better for a dentist than to be able to save a tooth that would otherwise have been lost, says a Everton dentist. Dentists hate it when a patient loses a tooth, especially when it could have been avoided. Many teeth are rotted away by infection, and many more are lost through continuous infections coming back to haunt the patient. A root canal procedure is there to save such teeth, and it works in a high number of cases. First of all let’s look at the cause of deep infections in a tooth; these are caused by germs and bacteria seeping into the inner chamber through a crack or an infected gum. The infection rises and is then killed off by antibiotics, but because it is deeply buried in the inner chamber of the tooth, it keeps coming back. The solution is to dig it out and illuminate it completely, thus saving the tooth. The tooth`s inner part is drilled out, painlessly I have to add, then the infection is scraped out, but germs are tiny to the eye, so a light is used to kill off any lurking behind. A spray is then used to coat the exposed part to make sure no more will grow there. The hole is then plugged with filler and the tooth is saved. The procedure sounds complicated, but it isn’t and it certainly isn’t painful for the patient.