This post from Alaska Premier Dental Group is about root canal procedures. Root canals are often feared, but they allow you to keep a tooth that would otherwise have to be extracted. As the saying goes, knowledge is power. It can help when you understand what is happening during this anxiety-inducing, though routine, procedure. At…
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Alaska Premier Dental Group: Calming Root Canal Fears
A dentist’s office is sometimes seen as a painful and scary place. Alaska Premier Dental Group tries to discourage that with its professional staff. But root canals still carry a strong association with pain, even though it doesn’t have to be that way. When a tooth becomes badly infected or decayed, a root canal may be…
The Cure, Not the Cause: Root Canals
Root canals have a bad reputation. Just hearing you need one makes a lot of people uneasy, because they’re associated with pain. But at Alaska Premier Dental Group, we stress that root canals do the opposite: they don’t cause pain, they relieve it. A root canal usually becomes necessary when a tooth is infected or…
Calming Root Canal Fears in Anchorage
A dentist’s office is sometimes seen as a painful and scary place. This is especially true if you’re getting something more involved than a teeth cleaning. Root canals, in particular, can strike fear into the most courageous of hearts. But at Alaska Premier Dental Group in Anchorage, it doesn’t have to be that way. A…
