Meet Dr. Yarbrough

512.447.0808
6700 West Gate Blvd. Ste 101
Austin, TX 78745

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Second Root Canal Same Tooth

Dr. Yarbrough's surgical expertise regarding Root Canal procedures is often called upon to re-treat a patient from another dentist. Dr. Yarbrough can fix many types of tooth damage by filling the cracked enamel or recreating the missing portions of a healthy tooth. Other times, however, the damage goes past the outer portion of the tooth (enamel) and inside the tooth to the tooth pulp. Once the inside of the tooth is infected or inflamed it usually requires a root canal procedure, otherwise known as endodontic treatment. Dr. Yarbrough is a dentist who specializes in matters concerning the inside of the tooth, namely the tooth pulp which is comprised of nerve tissue and blood vessels.

Endodontics involves diagnosis and treatment of the pulp (root canal) and surrounding tissues of the tooth. Dr. Yarbrough treats root canals, provides root canal retreatment and apicoectomy or (Root-End Resection) procedures.

Although the procedure for re-treating a root canal is the same, a repeat root canal treatment tends to be more involved and time consuming than the original one because your Dr. Yarbrough must remove the filling material before he can do the second root canal as well as deal with removing an infection.

Some people may also need endodontic surgery, either instead of or after retreatment. For example, if the tooth that has had root canal treatment has a post-and-core restoration, it may be difficult to remove the restoration without injuring the tooth. If the tooth still is infected after retreatment, endodontic surgery may be called for.

During endodontic surgery, Dr. Yarbrough makes a small incision in the gum near the tooth and cleans out the infected tissue around the tip of the root. He then shaves off several millimeters of the root (a procedure called an apicoectomy), cleans the inside of the canal from the root end, and places a filling in the end of the root. The incision is then stitched.

The success rate for this surgery is often 90%. If this procedure is not successful in removing the infection, the tooth will have to be extracted.