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What is a root canal?

What is a root canal? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The hollow part of the root of a tooth containing the nerve and blood vessels.
  2. (dentistry) A surgical operation on a root canal, typically filling it with gutta-percha.
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Anyway, when I went to the dentist, he told me I needed a total root canal.
It is a further object of this invention to provide for a root canal sealer which uses triiodomethane as an antimicrobial agent.
You don't want to be at the dentist and have the novocaine wear off halfway through a root canal, do you?
Afterwards, the tooth is sealed by placing a rubbery filling into the root canal.
This laser is commonly used for dental procedures such as root canal therapy.
Definitive therapy is root canal treatment or extraction, which in selected cases may be delayed until swelling has subsided.

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