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This link may be of help to you:

http://www.animated-teeth.com/root_canal/t1_root_canal.htm

There is quite a bit of information available at http://www.aae.org/patients/patientinfo/.

Our department does not take care of root canals we take care of oral surgery. You may want to look online under the endodontics department.

Janet M. Wooten
Executive Assistant to the Chairman
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
VCU School of Dentistry
Phone: 804-828-3584
Fax: 804-828-0056
Email: jmwooten@vcu.edu
http://www.dentistry.vcu.edu/omfs/about/admin.html

For more information on root canal treatment, I would recommend this American Association of Endodontists’ web page: http://www.aae.org/patients/patientinfo/faqs/rootcanals.htm

At the UW School of Dentistry Endodontics Clinic, the printed pamphlets that we use for patient education are purchased directly from the AAE and contain the same information as their website. We also link to this information on our clinic’s patient care website: http://www.dental.washington.edu/departments/endo/patient_info.php

Department of Endodontics

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Please contact the Temple University Dental School in Philadelphia.� We do not have a dental school at the Harrisburg Campus.� You can find the dental school�at www.temple.edu/dentistry.

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Business Manager

Temple University Harrisburg

234 Strawberry Square

Harrisburg, PA� 17101

Thanks for your email inquiry. Below is some general information about Endodontics, which is the specialty dental area which focuses on root canals. I checked out the website listed of the American Association of Endodontists, and this page in particular will answer most of your question about root canal treatment: http://www.aae.org/patients/patientinfo/faqs/rootcanals.htm

What is Endodontics?

Endodontics is the specialty of dentistry that deals with the tooth pulp and tissues surrounding the root of a tooth. The pulp, which contains nerves; arterioles and venules as well as lymphatic tissue and fibrous tissue, can become diseased or injured and thus is unable to repair itself. The pulp then dies and endodontic or root canal treatment is required. General dentists may provide root canal therapy or they may refer difficult treatment cases to an endodontist for specialty care.

For information on root canal treatment and other endodontic procedures, please visit American Association of Endodontists' website

Here is the link to our University of Washington School of Dentistry’s Endodontic department:

http://www.dental.washington.edu/departments/endo/index.php

If you are looking for information on dental care, go back to the dentistry website (http://www.dentistry.vcu.edu/) and click on the link for "Departments", click "Endodontics", then "About Us", then click on "Faculty".

...or just click on....http://www.dentistry.vcu.edu/endo/about/faculty.aspx.

Laura Still
Executive Administrative Assistant
VCU School of Dentistry
Division of Dental Hygiene and
Preceptorship Program
PO Box 980566
Richmond, VA 23298-0566

We actually have a dental hygiene program at Pacific University, so do not perform root canals in our clinic. I would recommend that you contact a school of dentistry in order to obtain this information. OHSU is located in Portland, OR, and does have this type of program – you can locate their website from the following address: http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/

An overview of the root canal procedure, from the American Dental Association:

http://www.ada.org/public/topics/root_canal.asp

More about root canals, also called endodontic treatment, from the American Association of Endodontists:

http://www.aae.org/patients/patientinfo/faqs/rootcanals.htm

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