Medicine put in root canal?

Question

Im presently having another root canal. My dentist does the old fashion way yet...which is fine by me but requires several visits instead of one. Every time he widens the root a bit more and then inserts some medicine for a couple days. Any ideas what type of medicine is put in there? From what he says he does it till he cannot detect any more infection or bad tissue in the tooth, so I take whatever is put in there before I leave is killing infection?

Answer 1

If your dentist does his root canals the old fashion way, then he is placing a very small cotton ball dipped and blotted in formocreasol. This well known medication is used to kill a wide variety of bacteria in the canal of the tooth. This medication has been around and used by every dentist who has been in practice more than 5 years. There has been some controversy over the use of it. But the only reports I've seen are that it is safe to use in the amounts that a dentist uses and for the length of time that it is used. Trust your dentist, he knows what to use and what not to use. Good luck!

Answer 2

You can get a root canal if you have a crown already on it. You may run the risk of the crown being damaged during the root canal - if it is, you'd need a new crown. If the crown stays in one piece and was recently placed, sometimes you can just put a filling in the hole where they do the root canal. How long you wait for the pain to subside is up to you. Best answer here is maybe it'll get better, maybe not.

Answer 3

Sterilization of infected root-canal dentine by topical application of a mixture of ciprofloxacin, metronidazole and minocycline in situ.Sato I, Ando-Kurihara N, Kota K, Iwaku M, Hoshino E.
Department of Oral Microbiology, Niigata University School of Dentistry, Japan.

The aim of this study was to observe the potential of a mixture of ciprofloxacin, metronidazole and minocycline to kill bacteria in the deep layers of root canal dentine in situ. After the crowns of extracted teeth had been removed, the drug combination (0.5 mg of each drug), or sterile saline, as the control, was placed in the root canals which had been previously irrigated ultrasonically with G4M EDTA. The penetration and bactericidal efficacy were estimated by various procedures as follows. (1) A cell suspension of E. coli was placed into small cavities prepared parallel to the root canals on the cut planes of nine single-rooted teeth. The teeth were then entirely covered with blue inlay wax. At time 0, and at 5h, 24h and 48h after the drug combination had been applied, cells of E. coli were recovered from the cavities by washing the cavities several times with sterile saline solution, and were cultured on the surfaces of heart-infusion (HI) agar plates. Total colony-forming

Answer 4

It is Calcium Hydroxide, it basically kills any remaining tissue in the tooth, so the dentist can then go in there and fill the canals with a plastic material Gutta Percha, then he will place a permanent filling in the tooth

Answer 5

usually its oil of Eugenol if it tastes bad
or
Zink oxide if it tastes chalky
and yes its killing anything that is rotten so it wont affect the root canals

Answer 6

i don't want to scare you but i was warned against that by my dentist when i moved to china. It may be formaldihide or something but it's not good.

Answer 7

Antibiotic? That is what my husbands endo puts in.

Answer 8

They usually use a form of clove oil.

Answer 9

Yes, its for killing infection and to me it tastes like bleach!! yuck