When decay is touching the nerve of your tooth, Fitzroy Dental recommends root canal treatment which is a procedure to save an infected or dead pulp and to avoid the spread of infection. Root canal therapy involves removing the infected pulp, carefully cleaning and shaping the inside of the root canal, then filling and sealing the root canal space. Sometimes the root canal anatomy can be very curve and challenging.
It is often recommended to place a crown or other restoration like an overlay on the tooth to protect and restore it to full function allowing the tooth to be like other teeth.
Sometimes a tooth with a dead nerve or a tooth that has undergone root therapy may have darkened over time, and following root canal treatment these teeth can be internally bleached to restore the natural colour to the tooth.