“How does a dentist kill a nerve in your tooth?”
I am a 21 year old male. I want to know how does a dentist kill a nerve in your tooth?
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Once numb the nerve is actually removed from the tooth.
Anesthetize the area, drill the tooth to open the nerve, then insert sharp, thin instrument called reamer or broach up to the root end. Twist to wrap around the nerve and pull out the nerve tissue.
The dentist would only intentionally be removing a nerve when root canal treatment is being done. The patient would have local anesthesia.
That is called pulpal debridement, followed by shaping of the canals and filling of the canals with inert material called Gutta Percha. Cleaning of the infected nerve is called killing the nerve for a generalized reference.
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What you are referring to is called Root canal treatment (RCT). Your dentist would make a small entrance (hole) from the top of that tooth, and clean/remove the infection inside the nerve space at the tip of the tooth root.
