("How are his teeth," my husband inquired during his root-canal treatments.

Endodontic retreatment is technically demanding; typical 5 year success rates are around 60% compared to around 85% for initial root-canal treatment.

In my experience, most people waiting for root-canal treatment look bored; toothpaste has been improved significantly through the years, and orthodontists are better known for the smiles they mold than for the way they smile.

For instance, Mr. Benson related, college officials at Colgate University, Swarthmore College and other schools in his consortium were caught by surprise when students arrived with dental problems requiring root-canal treatment - with bills up to $1,500 going to the colleges.

I'd rather have a root canal than go to these things.

Had a root canal done quite well, but that was all.

Running for public office is a little like having a root canal, but more trouble.

It began, she told him, with a root canal, maybe a month ago.

The way he felt right now, a root canal would be almost welcome.

"You can even be happy having root canal," she told the room.

Who would you prefer to do your root canal work?

Some of the women looked as if "they'd rather be having root canal," she said.

Have you ever gone to the dentist for a root canal?

For those Americans who can actually afford root canal, that is.

What if you have a root canal and want it removed?

But she has had almost more root canals than teeth.

I have to say watching Traps team has often been like getting a root canal.

What does root canal treatment feel like from a patient's perspective?

Root canal therapy is one of the most common procedures.

The root canal is usually done by a dentist without that ability.

Happened to me the time I had a root canal with hypnosis.

For this reason it is also called "repeat root canal treatment".

He also had emergency root canal the day before the final bout.

Pitt would have rather rushed off for a root canal.

I feel like I've had root canals all over my body."

But today - well, he'd rather have faced a root canal.

And then, later: "This article to me is like going to have root canal."

You might have thought I had had a root canal.

I think a root canal might have been more pleasant."

What does root canal treatment feel like from a patient's perspective?

For this reason it is also called "repeat root canal treatment".

A failed root canal treatment may also create a similar abscess.

Also, many people believe once a tooth has had a root canal treatment it cannot get decay.

Root canal treatment or a restoration may be needed.

If you have root canal treatment, you will need a crown.

You may need a root canal treatment if the pulp of your tooth is infected.

But ask the millions of Americans who have had root canal treatments in recent years and you will hear a far happier tale.

I also picked up a few crowns along the way after some painful - and expensive - root canal treatment.

In the permanent maxillary central incisor, root canal treatment can be effective.

More severe tooth decay requires repair with a crown or root canal treatment.

This procedure does not even require local anesthesia as the tooth has long been dead after the root canal treatment and no pain is felt.

For severe abrasion which involves pulp of the tooth, root canal treatment may be needed.

Crowns may be applied after a root canal treatment to seal the tooth and prevent it from breaking.

An animated review of root canal treatment.

"Right now we're ready to do a root canal treatment on Jose Padilla, our enemy combatant."

Many Brits are about two years away from performing their own root canal treatments with pliers and rubbing alcohol, military service or no.

This specialist may perform simple to difficult root canal treatments or other types of surgical root procedures.

It is thought that excessive removal of dentine during procedures such as root canal treatment weakens the tooth.

It was used in the past in the discredited Sargenti method of root canal treatment.

It is technically difficult to completely prevent void spaces occurring when placing a filling and carrying out root canal treatment.

A phoenix abscess is a dental abscess that can occur immediately following root canal treatment.

Teeth that do not have root canal treatment within two weeks of replantation also have a poor prognosis.

Sodium hypochlorite is now used in endodontics during root canal treatments.

Root canal treatment (also called a root canal) is done when decay will likely damage or has already killed a tooth.

Who would you prefer to do your root canal work?

The audience never does find out whether Sharon is saving for fillings, extractions or root canal work.

Probably needs some root canal work, too."

I hear a lot of women Jmmend it to their husbands for root canal work."

I'm saving my money for a mammogram, and this sounds ridiculous, but I'm praying, please, let me not need root canal work right now."'

Then Wanda (Ms. Berlin), the doctor's most neurotic patient, comes in screaming with an emergency toothache she is sure will require root canal work.

If I go in for root canal work, I think, 'Hey, how about a dental health page in the catalogue?' "

You would almost certainly not send a full-time oral surgeon, but what happens if you need root canal work and you're a hundred million miles from the nearest dentist?

Commuting to the city from the North Shore was an experience that she suspected ranked in pleasantness somewhere between an IRS audit and root canal work.

He had grown a hundred teeth in his left shoulder and arm, and as luck would have it all of them were in need of root canal work .

Ms. Neuwirth said that for the last three weeks, Ms. Abankwah had been in pain because of a tooth needing root canal work, and would be going to a dentist.

Cipollini, the best of them, has already announced that he has a long-awaited appointment for root canal work in Italy and so must withdraw in the shadow of the first peak.

When Miss Smith sings "I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues," she unaccountably leans back on a large tilted black disk as if she were awaiting root canal work.

Miss Mushore said she had missed rehearsals because of root canal work and had offered to work longer on her small part and to help coach the show's dancers, but had been turned down.

But the challenge grant is the "biggie," said Isaiah Sheffer, Symphony Space's artistic director, who likened the application process to "an I.R.S. audit and root canal work."

He knew that on their last day off back in New York, he would be able to slip away to buy the ring because she had scheduled some root canal work at her dentist's on Long Island.

Mr. Cordova's illegal practice came to light a week ago when a patient who had had root canal work developed an infection and had to have several teeth extracted by a licensed dentist, the police said.

He had just flown from the West Coast, and his appetite was between time zones; his jaw was still recovering from a major dental offensive that included the extraction of three teeth and root canal work on a fourth.

Nope, the songwriting here is consistently good, the lead singer still sounds like he's getting punched in the stomach while having root canal work done, and the album title--no small thing--is a synonym for a certain cause of death!

The Knicks became a nonstop, day-to-day epic that began at this time last year when they underwent the equivalent of root canal work: they traded the venerable Charles Oakley for an untested and unproven Marcus Camby.

Occasionally the music broke through the need to throw a party, and on Cream's "White Room," Mr. Bruce, who mostly looked as if he were facing a day of root canal work, soloed through the noise of Mr. Rundgren's guitar improvisations.

Now, he is bracing for root canal work. . . . LATRELL SPREWELL is not surprised at how well he defended against VINCE CARTER in Game 1, but he understands if others are.

In the medicine cabinet were many old prescnption containers, some of them years old, Corinne's, Michael Sr.'s, there was one containing codeine pills Dad had started to take after his root canal work of a few months ago then swore off, in disgust-"Nothing worse than being fuzzy-headed."