Relieve Pain and Preserve Your Natural Teeth with Painless Root Canal Therapy
Feeling nervous about an upcoming root canal appointment? There is no need to fear root canals. Endodontic treatments are safe and painless procedures that save millions of smiles annually. Whether you have a severely damaged tooth or a decayed tooth, it doesn’t always have to be extracted. A root canal saves your tooth by removing the diseased or infected pulp and restoring your tooth with a durable crown.
Borderview Family Dental offers root canals in Blaine, Washington, to manage pain, prevent widespread infections, and save your tooth. If your tooth is infected, schedule an appointment with our team today for painless root canal treatment (RCT).
What are the signs of a root canal?
Inside your tooth, you have a pulp chamber that contains nerves and blood vessels. If your pulp is diseased because of deep decay, trauma, or failed dental work, you will experience numerous unpleasant symptoms.
Some include:
- Severe tooth pain
- Sensitivity to hot and cold foods
- Tooth discoloration as the blood vessels die off
- Gum swelling and tenderness
- Pus around the infected tooth
If you experience such symptoms, you should see a root canal dentist immediately. Delaying treatment causes further damage, which can lower the chances of saving your tooth with a root canal.
My pain is gone. Should I still visit a dentist?
Sometimes, patients with an infected tooth may experience temporary relief when the pain dissipates. Unfortunately, when a painful infected tooth stops causing pain, it may not necessarily mean the infection has gone away.
In fact, the absence of pain can sometimes indicate a more severe problem. This means that the infection has progressed to the point that it has damaged the nerve inside the tooth, and the “dead tooth” no longer experiences pain sensation. The infection is still active and can spread to the surrounding tissues without treatment.
What should I expect from the root canal procedure?
The procedure starts with an initial examination with digital X-rays and photos to determine the extent of damage. If your tooth is viable for a root canal, we’ll precisely numb your mouth with local anesthetics to ensure you don’t feel pain during treatment.
Next, we’ll make a hole on top of your tooth to access your tooth’s interior. Then, we’ll remove the infected pulp chamber and clean and sanitize the empty chamber to remove unwanted bacteria.
The dentist will then file to reshape the canals before filling them with biocompatible material (gutta-percha). Finally, we will seal the access hole with a dental filling. If your tooth is significantly damaged, we may restore it with a dental crown to protect it from fractures or cracks.
Painless root canal treatments near me
Our experienced team offers safe, gentle, and effective root canal therapy to save smiles in the Blaine area and the surrounding locations. Call us at (360) 332-8737 to learn more about our endodontic services and how they can preserve your oral health.

Root canal therapy is a very common procedure. It has a reputation of being undesirable and painful. But when done properly it is actually painless. Every tooth in your mouth is composed of a crown and a root. When a cavity or bacteria penetrates the tooth, the root and its nerves become irritated. As a result, the bacteria within the pulp cavity needs to be removed and cleaned in order to restore the tooth to its healthy state. Following the procedure, the tooth is fragile and consequently is restored with the natural crown for a lifetime of durability. Root canals have a success rate of 95% or greater. Most root canal are diagnosed by patients’ sensitivities to a specific tooth. Be sure to consult your dentist any symptoms or discomfort occur.