Our topic in the next weeks is root canal treatment and its risks! (6/10)
Redoing poorly performed root treatment is known as „Revision“, and is definitely necessary!
Revision, as a rule, involves more work than standard root treatment. But most medical insurers do not even pay, because you could have gotten the work done properly the first time around. This is why not many dentists like to perform revisions and go right on to root tip resections and/or tooth extractions.
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Whether a revision will be successful or not depends on how heavily contaminated the tooth is by bacteria on the inside of the tooth! And also on how well the original root treatment was performed. Sometimes the bone is so badly inflamed that revision no longer helps, and you have to opt to perform a root tip resection.
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A root tip resection involves getting the inflamed tissue, resulting from faulty root treatment, out of the bone. But simply removing the tissue is not enough – you also have to clean out the inside of the tooth. If this is not done, then you may be all right for a while (a year or two), but then the problems start up again!
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Unfortunately, dentists usually don’t bother performing more than a root tip resection, and what the patient is not aware of is that this means simply removing the inflamed tissue, not treating the cause, which is the contaminated canal. And if the canal is not treated, then the problems return!
