ROBERT L GROVE JR., D.D.S.      ENDODONTIST

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What to Expect
with Root Canal

We are concerned not only about your dental health and endodontics treatment needs, but also about your right as a patient to make the treatment decision that you feel is best for you. Our commitment to you is to provide you with detailed and complete information about your dental needs as we diagnose them. We will share our diagnostic processes with you, and invite and welcome all of your questions regarding our treatment.

Towards this aim of a mutual sharing of information, we feel it is important to advise you of the reasonably foreseeable risks of endodontics therapy. The following is important information you should consider to aid your treatment decision.

  • Root canal therapy is a procedure designed to retain a tooth that may otherwise require extraction. Root canal therapy has a very high degree of success. However, it is a biological procedure, and results cannot therefore be guaranteed.

  • Approximately 5% to 10% of teeth that have undergone nonsurgical root canal therapy may require retreatment or root-end microsurgery.

  • Despite our best efforts, approximately 5% of endodontically treated teeth may fail and require extraction.

  • Following root canal therapy it is normal to feel some tenderness in the area over the next few days, this part of the natural healing process. These symptoms are temporary and are usually resolved with over-the-counter pain medications.

  • Final restoration (crown) of the tooth that has undergone root canal therapy is essential to root canal success and retention of the tooth. A final restoration should be done by your restorative dentist.


Chairside Operatory


Chairside Operatory