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Root canals have unjustly gained a bad reputation. While cartoons and comedy movies have portrayed these treatments as absolutely horrible, they are in fact quite painless thanks to local anesthetic treatments. Unfortunately, many people think that having a tooth extracted would be preferable to having a root canal. Here’s why it is almost always better to get a root canal than to have a tooth extraction.
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