Save Your Tooth Month
Anyone who's ever felt debilitating tooth pain - from the toughest athlete to the everyday citizen - knows a bad toothache can be the difference between winning the game or falling behind. Luckily, endodontists are the superheroes of saving teeth! They're specialists in pain management and root canal treatment, and they should be your go-to when tooth pain gets you down. To show them how much we appreciate their care and expertise, we're giving them an ENTIRE MONTH of recognition. May is Save Your Tooth Month, and we look forward to celebrating with media appearances and social media celebrations all month long!
Saving Natural Teeth
Sometimes your teeth may have infection or disease and will need additional care. When possible, you should always consider treatments to save your teeth. You may think, why not have a tooth pulled, especially if no one can see it, but you will know your tooth is missing and it will negatively impact your quality of life and self-confidence.
What’s more, missing teeth can cause other teeth to shift, affect your ability to properly chew and lead to more problems down the road — and a lot more cost. Tooth extraction often is more painful than the infection itself, and replacing an extracted tooth with an artificial one requires additional dental visits that can quickly add up.
Modern endodontics offers advancements in technologies, procedures and materials, giving you many treatment options to save your natural teeth. It’s important to understand your choices and how they’ll impact both your tooth and your future dental health. It’s always best to retain your natural teeth whenever possible and endodontic treatment should be your first choice for the best health and cosmetic results. Endodontists are specialists in saving teeth, and your natural teeth are worth saving. A specialist can evaluate your condition and provide the best treatment plan to help you save your teeth for a lifetime.
Worth Saving - Why You Should Always Strive to Save Your Natural Teeth
Watch the Video Below to Learn Why Endodontists Are the Superheroes of Saving Teeth
Why Celebrate Root Canals?
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a superhero, here to save your tooth!
The beginning of a root canal procedure means the end of tooth pain. Scheduling a root canal with an endodontist, a specialist with advanced training, means you’ll be meeting with a superhero of saving teeth.
During a root canal procedure, an endodontist removes inflamed or infected pulp, carefully cleans and shapes the inside of the root canal, then fills and seals the space. Afterward, you will return to your dentist, who will place a crown or other restoration on the tooth to protect and restore it to full function.
Save Your Tooth Month celebrates this tooth-saving procedure and the endodontists responsible for saving teeth. While general dentists know how to perform root canals, endodontists spend at least two extra years in training focusing solely on endodontic procedures.
Starting to see how an endodontist is a superhero of saving teeth? There’s more to it than masks, capes and weapons against bacteria. With great power comes great responsibility: to change the way root canals are perceived so we can save even more teeth. This is where you — citizen, patient — come in. So join our legion and be an ambassador for restoring smiles everywhere.
Dr. Sara Markovic of River Street Endo explains what Save Your Tooth Month 2024 means to her.
Dr. Caithlin Williams-Beecher gives a rundown of how root canal treatment saves teeth.
Afton Endodontics of North Carolina celebrates SYTM24 with superhero teeth!
Learn More About Root Canals
Our Sponsor
The manufacturers of the GentleWave® System is a proud and exclusive sponsor of Save Your Tooth Month. The GentleWave System, an innovative technology platform designed to treat tooth decay by cleaning and disinfecting the microscopic spaces within teeth without the need to remove tooth structure. The system utilizes a proprietary mechanism of action, which combines procedure fluid optimization, broad-spectrum acoustic energy and advanced fluid dynamics, to debride and disinfect deep regions of the complex root canal system in a less invasive procedure that preserves tooth structure. The clinical benefits of the GentleWave System when compared to conventional methods of root canal therapy include improved clinical outcomes, such as superior cleaning that is independent of root canal complexity and tooth anatomy, high and rapid rates of healing and minimal to no post-operative pain. In addition, the GentleWave System can improve the workflow and economics of dental practices.
Find My Endodontist
If you’re experiencing tooth pain, you have injured your tooth, your tooth is sensitive to hot or cold, and/or there is swelling around the teeth, gums or your face, you should make an appointment to see an endodontist. Use our powerful Find My Endodontist search tool to find an endodontist in your area, and schedule an appointment with a specialist of saving teeth today! Your natural teeth are worth saving, so treasure them!