Palliative Treatment

Palliative treatment is performed to alleviate pain or pressure, prevent future damage, or to treat an infection. In the case of a dying nerve, the tooth will be opened, drained, disinfected, medicated and temporized. This procedure is separate from nerve therapy (root canal therapy) which will be scheduled at a later date, giving the tooth some time to heal. After palliative treatment, please make an appointment as soon as possible to have root canal therapy. Until you have had root canal therapy, a post and core and an all ceramic crown to prptect your tooth, you should not bite on this tooth in order to avoid fracture.

Testimonials

To Drs/ Staff at N.M.F.D.

Somehow just reimbursing you for services rendered seems inadequate, at best. Thank you so very much for all the special care you give to make my visits comfortable to me, this is simply priceless.

From the moment I call through the moment I leave the clinic- I feel welcome and important. I so appreciate modern technology and your efforts to keep procedures pain-free. It is also refreshing to see an office that is organized, prompt, and clean, and obviously has employees that enjoy their work and their co-workers.

C. Olson St. Peter

I put off going to the dentist for many years because of the pain of just touching them.

When I was a child the dentist slapped me 'cause I was crying 'cause it hurt. He said, "it don't hurt that bad", but he did not have my mouth. When I was 23 I got a full upper plate (denture) and a partial on the bottom and never went back until I needed an anchor tooth removed. I had the oral surgeon do it 'cause they would put me to sleep.

15 years later I heard about relaxed dentistry from the radio and a couple of kids at work. I knew I needed to have things done and paid for before I retired, so I made the appointment and I had a new full upper and new partial. No Pain!. They used the "Wand" for Novocain so if there is pain you do not even know it. I even has a root canal and don't remember anything. It was Great!!

H. Hager Mankato