How to Use root canal in a Sentence

root canal

noun
  • I need to have a root canal.
  • Records show the root canal appointment was in May 2018.
    Kristi Belcamino, Twin Cities, 10 July 2019
  • Working root canals by day, working the back four by night.
    Norman Chad, San Antonio Express-News, 11 June 2018
  • That would be worse than watching the Pistons for a year with root canal Reggie.
    Andrew Sharp and Ben Golliver, SI.com, 23 Sep. 2019
  • Pucklis got the appointment and he was scheduled for the root canal.
    Randy McRoberts, baltimoresun.com, 12 Aug. 2020
  • Tip the endodontist both before and after the root canal.
    Joe Queenan, WSJ, 14 Feb. 2019
  • But as anyone who’s had to get a root canal can tell you, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
    Zahra Barnes, SELF, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Fresh fillings can help prevent tooth decay and loss — and, down the road, root canals and implants.
    Abbie Kozolchyk, Good Housekeeping, 7 Jan. 2011
  • This will need to be fixed, and when she is settled at the sanctuary, our vets will perform a root canal.
    Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2022
  • This is the least relaxing thing on the planet, other than getting a root canal.
    Marie Claire, 7 Mar. 2014
  • The top dental terms searched were root canal, crown, implant, orthodontic, and bridge.
    Robin Gelburd, STAT, 12 June 2018
  • Even so, like a hip or even a root canal, the new joints have a lifetime of only up to about 20 years before they must be replaced again.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2020
  • Treatment can range from draining the abscess to a root canal to having the affected tooth pulled.
    Lisa Mulcahy, Men's Health, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Michael Griesmer said the preschooler needed root canals — seven of them.
    Indianapolis Star, 19 Mar. 2020
  • In an attempt to distract Stone during the root canal, her dentist talked all about her work in prisons.
    Vulture, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Reading the headlines in Washington these days is about as fun as getting a root canal.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 29 July 2018
  • The four games leading into Sunday felt like watching your own root canal, from the dentist’s chair.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2021
  • When decay reaches the pulp, dentists perform a root canal.
    David Cox /, NBC News, 15 Jan. 2018
  • For her 24th birthday, Jacqueline Alvarado got three teeth pulled and a root canal.
    Colin Campbell, baltimoresun.com, 10 Sep. 2017
  • But most of those root canals will come at the hands of Wright-Foreman, who seemingly gets better with every game.
    Jeremy Fuchs, SI.com, 23 Jan. 2018
  • The second lioness, however, seems to have an open root canal in one tooth.
    National Geographic, 7 Apr. 2017
  • And watching many of them cut their teeth this season has been comparable to root canal.
    Bob Brookover, Philly.com, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Lillian Velazquez has now gotten the root canal that was denied for nearly five years.
    Andy Newman, New York Times, 1 May 2023
  • The other 40 percent would rather have a root canal than suppress a good five-card major, which might lead to a silly contract.
    Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 15 Sep. 2019
  • There are two kinds of people on this Earth: those who view the bathhouse as a place to charge their human battery and those who would rather have a root canal than bathe among strangers.
    Brennan Kilbane, Allure, 22 Mar. 2022
  • But since the event began, their services have expanded to doing root canals, crowns and dentures.
    Ethan Schmidt, azcentral, 13 Dec. 2019
  • This can also escalate into bigger problems, like the need for root canals and crowns, or tooth loss.
    Advertorial, Orange County Register, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Should Koval have chosen to delay treatment and risk a root canal—or worse, a tooth extraction?
    Jill U. Adams, Scientific American, 2 July 2020
  • The polls show that many Americans perceive this contest with the distress reserved for root canals or colonoscopies.
    Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Biden also had a basal cell carcinoma skin lesion removed in March, and a root canal procedure in June.
    Molly Bohannon, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024

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