October 12, 2019
An apicoectomy is a microsurgery procedure on the soft tissues inside a tooth. It is designed to preserve natural teeth rather than having them pulled.
An apicoectomy is a minor dental procedure among endodontics procedures. Your endodontist removes the very tip of the tooth’s root during an apicoectomy, aka a root-end resection.
Apicoectomies are highly beneficial treatments because they relieve pain and can save infected teeth from needing extraction. The procedure itself takes about 30 to 90 minutes.