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What is a root canal?

What is a root canal? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The hollow part of the root of a tooth containing the nerve and blood vessels.
  2. (dentistry) A surgical operation on a root canal, typically filling it with gutta-percha.
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Anyway, when I went to the dentist, he told me I needed a total root canal.
Afterwards, the tooth is sealed by placing a rubbery filling into the root canal.
He completed the root canal begun by dentist number one only to announce that my insurance wouldn't stretch to a crown.
No one likes to do it, no one likes to spend the money or time, but filling a cavity is a whole lot cheaper than having a root canal.
We all reckon the plan is to do a root canal on the bad tooth and remove the wisdom tooth.
Definitive therapy is root canal treatment or extraction, which in selected cases may be delayed until swelling has subsided.

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