Single Sitting Root Canal Treatment

Single sitting root canal treatment is becoming very popular these days. The single visit root canals are very common with the patients and dentists these days. Everyone wants to finish the treatment as soon as possible due to fast pace life style and less time. Also people finding the dental appointment not to be a pleasant experience want to get the work done at the earliest. The dentists also can earn big sum of money in less time therefore single sitting root canal treatments are gaining popularity these days. One-visit endodontics offers the advantages like more profitable for the dentist, less traumatic for the patient and also less time consuming and more cost friendly. But single-visit root canal treatment cannot be done in all the cases. In cases where the pulp is infected and associated with periapical infection and in cases of draining sinus of pus the root canals should be ideally cleaned and medicatements placed, and the canals filled at subsequent visits on elimination of the infection completely. Usually any single visit at a dentist could last about 30 to 60 mins.

When there is an acute infection with no pus accumalation in & around the tooth, Root canal treatment can be completed in a single sitting.

The biggest diagnostic aid in this case is an X-ray. Which shows presence or absence of pus accumalation in the form of a Periapical Radioluency.

X Ray shows Periapical Radioluency.

The Procedure :-

First step is to open the pulp chamber to allow access to the canals.

Once open, with help of special instruments known as files the infected nerves is removed. The canals are flushed with antiseptic solution.

The root canals are further cleaned & reshaped to free them of all debris.

Once the canals are empty dry & clean, they are filled and sealed with biocompatible material known as Gutta Purcha Points / G.P. Points

he cavity is then filled with temporarily filling material which is then replaced with a permanent filling material like composite filling.

A root canal treated tooth should be ideally capped after 15-20 days.