A. Without question, I believe, as my Learned Colleagues do, that it is always best to save a natural tooth. Let me elaborate. In the late 1980s, single tooth implants started to be placed in the ...

Columns share an author’s personal perspective. Q: I recently went to the endodontist and was told my root canal from 15-plus years ago failed and that I could have an apicoectomy or another root ...

We’ve all felt that sinking feeling when a routine dental check-up suddenly turns into a list of procedures. The thought of a numbing shot, the high-pitched drill, the awkwardness of lying still and ...

Earlier today I had a root canal and had such a good experience that my mouth is already feeling better than it has at any point over the past year since I cracked my tooth. I’ve often heard that root ...

This article was originally published on Undark. When a dentist told Corrine Rivera that her 7-year-old daughter needed a baby root canal at her routine checkup, Rivera didn’t understand that “baby” ...