What Is Endocator?
Bacterial Debris Tester
Endocator is a one minute test that your dentist can perform during your root canal to confirm that your tooth is disinfected before finishing the root canal. Endocator tests for trace amounts of debris that may be left behind by bacteria and nerve tissue.
Why is this important?
Because dirty root canals are more likely to lead to infection
The more debris that is left in your root canal, the more likely that the root canal will fail. By testing for trace amounts of bacterial and tissue debris the dentist is able to determine when the root canal is disinfected and ready to fill. Endocator is a valuable tool to know when the infection has been removed and when the dentist can stop drilling in your root canal.
Keep bacteria out of your tooth
Studys have shown that root canals that test positive to living bacteria in their root canals only have a 68% success rate, while root canals with no living bacteria in their root canals have a 94% success rate. That’s more then a five times that amount of failures when teeth are sealed with living bacteria in the canal! Endocator tells your dentist what teeth are still infected in a minute giving your dentist the chance to further disinfect those teeth. By giving your dentist real time data about how infected the tooth is endocator can help reduce root canal failures.
Quick- Test takes about a minute.
Safe and Effective- The same technology is used by hospitals to confirm sterility of their surgical rooms.
Accurate- Clean canals verified by Endocator have a 99% of having no living bacteria in the root canal.
What happened if My first canal failed
Don’t worry in most cases root canals can be retreated with a high success rate of aproximately 74%. Endocator is especially important when a root canal needs to be redone as previous studies have shown success rates as low as 33% when their is still bacteria in the canal. Endocator gives dentists the tools to know what root canals are likely to still have bacteria and know what teeth need additional cleaning to ensure the success of your root canal.
How can Endocator helps save tooth structure.
Removing too much tooth during a root canal can cause the tooth to break. A root canal consists of first drilling the inside of the tooth, then rinsing the root with disinfectants. Endocator lets the dentist know if the canal is clean and ready for rinsing before the dentist removes excessive tooth structure. More tooth structure means that the tooth is less likely to break in the future.
Endocator Saves time
Without Endocator the dentist can only guess when a tooth is actually clean enough to fill the root canal. Some irrigation protocols last up to 20 minutes and for teeth that are already disinfected this additional time is not necessary
Endocator Prevents additional visits to the dentist
In the past root canals were completed in two visits to ensure that the root was free of bacteria. Endocator gives your dentist tools to complete most root canals in the first visit. Endocator also helps to ensure that your root canal works the first time so you don’t have to return to redo the root canal, redo the crown, or even extract the tooth.
Endocator can save you money
Failed root canals result in additional visits and expense at the dentist. By helping your dentist to complete the root canal right the first time you could be preventing thousands of dollars of additional dental work to correct the failed root canal.
How does it work?
Root Canal Sample – To test for the amount of invisible debris that is inside of your root canal the dentist simply places water in your tooth for 15 seconds then takes the water out and places it in our tester for 10 seconds. The whole process of testing takes about a minute and the only thing that touches your tooth is water, all the chemicals and science takes place in our tester not your mouth.
Old Root Canals? – Unfortunately Endocator only tests for bacterial contamination when your dentist is doing a root canal. Once the root canal is sealed then there is no way of knowing if trace amounts of bacteria is in the tooth and that is why it is so important to find a dentist who uses Endocator to test for bacterial contamination during their root canals.
Summary
Quick– Whole testing procedure takes about a minute.
Safe– To get a sample of your tooth the only thing that a dentist has to put in your tooth is water.
Easy– All your dentist has to do is transfer the water from your tooth into our tester. That’s it!
Affordable -Each test only costs your dentists a couple of dollars and each test can prevent thousands of dollars in future treatment if the root canal does fail.
Trusted– Laboratories and hospitals across the nation use the same technology to confirm their disinfection.
Sensitive– With Endocator there is almost always detectable levels of cellular debris in a root canal. Endocator can detect less than one bacteria in a root canal environment.
All teeth should be tested during a root canal– Contamination tests need to be done during your root canal, not after, so use our search tool to find a dentist trained with the Endocator technology today!