Single Sitting Root Canal Treatment

Nothing beats having a healthy set of teeth.

Over time, the bacteria present in your mouth start causing infection in the inner portions of your tooth (also known as the pulp) and can lead to pain.

If you’re facing persisting toothache that does not go away, you might need a root canal treatment. If you need root canal treatment in Agra, visit our dental experts.

A root canal treatment, also known as endodontic therapy, is a safe and effective solution that helps eliminate the infection in your tooth root, relieve pain, and save your natural teeth.

Root Canal Procedure at Tooth and Gum Dental Clinic:

• ● Removing the deep-seated infection from your tooth root.
• ● Cleaning and disinfecting the canals.
• ● Sealing the space with a filling.

While getting your root canal treated sounds painful and frightening, the treatment at our clinic is virtually painless.

We use our expertise in root canal treatments to provide you with a first-class and painless experience, making sure that you feel comfortable and cared for at every step of the way.

Nowadays, everyone is very familiar with the word Root canal treatment, which is also called RCT. When someone hears that they require a root canal treatment, the first thought that comes to mind is multiple long sitting appointments with lots of pain. Still, with continued research and newer technology, multiple visits to endodontics shift to a single sitting root canal.

"Single-visit endodontics has gained acceptance due to short appointments and success rates."

Single Sitting Root Canal - Agra

The procedure's success depends on proper cleaning and shaping of the root canal, disinfection, and three-dimensional filling of the canal system. Not all cases are suitable for single-sitting root canals, according to the Indian Academy of Endodontics.

Criteria for Single-Sitting RCT:

1. ● Patient acceptance.
2. ● Sufficient time to complete the whole procedure in a single sitting.
3. ● Absence of any acute symptoms like pus drainage or any persistent flow of exudates or blood from the root canal.
4. ● Absence of anatomical obstacles like pulp stone or calcification in canals.
5. ● No procedural difficulties like ledge formation, blockage, or inadequate cleaning of the canal.Procedural difficulties like ledge formation, blockage, or inadequate cleaning of the canal.

Procedure for Single-Sitting RCT:

• ● Removing a large number of microorganisms during cleaning and shaping.
• ● Ensuring remaining bacteria are entombed by root canal obturation, depriving them of essential elements for survival.

Advantages of Single-Sitting RCT:

1. ✔ Reduced patient appointments.
2. ✔ Risk of inter-appointment contamination and flare-up chances.
3. ✔ Reduced patient and operator fatigue.
4. ✔ Helpful in patients who required full mouth rehabilitation.
6. ✔ Physically disabled patients who cannot come to the dental clinic frequently.
7. ✔ Patients who require sedation during treatment.

Contraindications of Single-Sitting RCT:

• ● Teeth with severe pain and pus discharge from the sinus.
• ● Anatomic anomalies of teeth.
• ● Acute periapical abscess.
• ● Teeth that required re-RCT.
• ● Patients with TMJ disorder cannot open their mouths for a long time.