Articles about treatment guides
5-15% of root canals eventually fail. When yours does, you're suddenly facing a confusing decision tree: retreat, surgery, or extract and replace. This guide walks through what retreatment actually involves, the realistic 70-85% success rate, and when it's the right first move.
Does a root canal hurt? The honest answer separates three different pains people conflate: the toothache that brought you in (severe), the procedure itself (minimal under modern anesthesia and rubber dam), and the 24-48 hours afterward (mild, manageable with ibuprofen). Cited to peer-reviewed pain research.
