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Looking for a caring and professional dental practice? We’re excited to welcome new patients to our clinic! Whether you’re due for a check-up, need treatment, or are looking to enhance your smile, our friendly team is here to help.
Contact us today to book your first appointment—we look forward to meeting you!

Root canal treatment

When a large cavity in a tooth reaches the nerve chamber, or in some cases when a tooth breaks, root canal treatment may be required. In order to save the tooth the Envisage Dental team take great care to painlessly clean and fill infected tooth canals with the most up to date rotary systems, before adding a filling material to seal them.

Within every tooth is a nerve chamber and a blood supply in the root canal. In a healthy tooth, these nerves will be alive. Front teeth will normally have one root holding them in the jaw bone, but back teeth can have two, three or four.

If a large cavity in a tooth reaches the nerve chamber, or if a tooth breaks, bacteria can cause the nerves to die. The root canals can become infected and an abscess may form beneath the root(s) of the tooth, in the jawbone. Pain may occur at any time during this process, and the infection can spread.

Treatment is usually carried out over one or two visits to Envisage Dental. The purpose of the treatment is to remove the bacteria or dying tissue from inside the tooth and to clean and disinfect the root canals. This is achieved by making a small hole through the tooth into the nerve chamber, locating and measuring the root canals, then cleaning and widening them using fine instruments. Local anaesthetic is used throughout the procedure to avoid any discomfort.

To aid the instrumentation of these intricate channels to the tooth, magnification may be used and if possible, the tooth will usually be isolated to keep the area dry and clear.

Once clean, the canals are filled to seal them off from re-infection. In most cases, infections will start to heal at this point.

Most patients only experience mild discomfort following treatment, but it is common to experience none at all.

Patient Reviews

People are talking about us

The biggest complement we receive is when our patients refer their friends and family to Envisage Dental. In fact, we have built much of our practice on these valued, trusted recommendations over the years. Read our reviews to hear why our patients are recommending us…

Patient reviews

1072 Reviews

5.0
SL

Sheila Lett

Excellent as usual, thanks.

SP

Selena Peters

Taken on time for my appointment. Staff friendly. Just a shame they converted the upstairs waiting area into an office as up and down stairs for dentist and hygienist appointments. Wouldn’t be great if you had mobility issues!

31st March 2025

I have been attending this surgery in and off for 40 years .... I think that says it all!

30th March 2025

Staff always friendly and helpful. Very clean and well maintained practice.

JT

john twine

Very friendly environment from the reception to the assistants to the dentist. Just felt so much at ease. But as well as very friendly there was a reassurance too of professionalism

CF

Carole Fearnley

First class treatment and professional, friendly staff

28th March 2025

Polite and helpful reception staff. Very professional dental care from dentist.

28th March 2025

The time period set for inspection went as planed.

27th March 2025

I have been with Practice for a number of years and other family members.Always most helpful and consistent

27th March 2025

The dentists I have seen (Leona & Pedro) are kind, helpful, knowledgeable, gentle & a problem that I have had for some time has finally been resolved. They got to the root of the problem :)

25th March 2025

HelloThe dentist and hygienist and reception team are kind and helpful, and always make me feel I know what to do on leaving. Always a positive experience. Thank you

25th March 2025

This initial consultation was excellent. Well structured and a detailed explanation of the facts. I felt very confident to go ahead and book to have a scan.

JC

Jason Cook

Excellent as always, from arrival to treatment to departure.

CD

Chris Dore

Brilliant as always

23rd March 2025

Friendly reception & professional dentist

23rd March 2025

Excellent Reception Staff and Dental Staff

21st March 2025

Very professionally and smoothly executed

21st March 2025

The overall experience at this dental Practice is consistently very high standard from the Reception Team through the dental treatment received- .

CH

Charles Hardingham

Call me weird but always enjoy seeing my dentist! Appointment was early, friendly service always and leave better than when I came in! Would recommend!

BL

Barry Lewis

On time excellent service and attentive to detail with treatment

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