When you need to have a root canal, or when you need an emergency treatment for a toothache that has kept you up in pain the whole night, where would you go to for treatment- a dentist or an endodontist? An endodontist can address your needs quicker than a regular dentist. An endodontist is one who has completed four years of dental school and additional years specializing in root canals or endodontics. The extra years of training gives an endodontist capability to perform root canal therapy, surgery, retreatments and complex root canal treatments.

Every general dentist should be able to perform easy root canal procedures; an endodontist takes a few more years of specialized training. If you go to a general dentist for a root canal procedure, you may have a long wait to be fitted in the dentist's schedule but an endodontist may accommodate you quicker. Endodontists work closely with dentists to provide cosmetic dentistry to patients. A dentist may refer a patient to an endodontist anytime and be assured that the patient is getting the best care, and the endodontist may stand in for the dentist if the later decides to go off for a few days.

A root canal procedure takes a lot of the dentist's time and affect the full schedule in a day while this cosmetic dentistry procedure may take lesser time for an endodontist. There are cases when a dentist cannot finish a root canal he has started, and the case will be referred to an endodontist who will perform the cosmetic dentistry procedure. If the x-rays of your problem tooth poses complication, your dentist may refer you to an endodontist. It would be a wise dental practice to follow a dentist's advice.

Some dentists enjoy doing root canals while some may send you to an endodontist right away. Some dentists start the root canal cases and if it gets difficult, refer the patient to an endodontist. This does not mean that your dentist is not able or capable to perform the procedure. He can, but endodontists perform as many root canals in a year as dentists would during their whole career. This gives you the assurance that you are entrusting a dental procedure to somebody who is an expert in dental practice.
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