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Article: 'Not painful at all,' he assured me: The root of root canal's reputation
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
- Article date:
- April 7, 2002
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For the Sunday Gazette-Mail
AS far as dental procedures go, there may not be one as feared,
yet more misunderstood, than the root canal. Those two words are
enough to send even the bravest of men scurrying underneath a table.
However, four root canals later, I am happy to emerge from underneath
the table to report that my previous bias towards root canals was
unwarranted.
Where does the root canal's bad reputation come from? According to
Dr. G. Wayne Christian, a Charleston-based endodontist, a lot of it
comes from patients delaying the treatment.
"The better the tooth is when you treat it, the better people do.
However, instead of getting treatment when they know something is
wrong, they ...