Endodontist vs. General Dentist: Why Choose Gentle Touch Endodontics?

Both general dentists and endodontists can perform root canals. The difference is specialization: a general dentist cares for your overall dental health, while an endodontist focuses on diagnosing tooth pain and treating the inside of the tooth and its roots. If you need root canal treatment, retreatment, or help with a difficult diagnosis, that focused expertise matters.

At Gentle Touch Endodontics, Dr. Luba Borukhova combines advanced endodontic training with microscope-guided treatment, 3D CBCT imaging, and personal attention. Our goal is to find the source of the problem, explain your options, and help preserve your natural tooth.

Specialist Root Canal Care, Centered on Your Tooth

A general dentist provides a broad range of dental care and may perform root canals. An endodontist concentrates on endodontic treatment: diagnosing tooth pain, treating the pulp and root canals, managing retreatment, and addressing problems such as cracked teeth and dental injuries.

Gentle Touch is built around this specialty. Patients come to us when a root canal is complex, a tooth still hurts after earlier treatment, or they want an endodontist to evaluate their options.

A Surgical Microscope for Detailed Treatment

Root canals involve small, intricate spaces inside the tooth. At Gentle Touch, Dr. Borukhova uses a surgical operating microscope in virtually every root canal case. Magnification helps her see the treatment area in detail, locate small canals, and work carefully with complex tooth anatomy.

This microscope-guided approach is especially valuable for curved or calcified canals, retreatment, and cases where a canal is difficult to locate.

3D CBCT Imaging to See More of the Tooth

Gentle Touch has 3D CBCT imaging to show tooth roots and surrounding bone in three dimensions. This detailed view can help Dr. Borukhova evaluate complex root anatomy, persistent symptoms, suspected cracks, and teeth that may need retreatment. Combined with a clinical examination and microscope-guided care, 3D imaging helps us understand what may be causing your symptoms and plan treatment around your tooth.

Experience With Challenging Root Canal Problems

Gentle Touch provides focused care for complex or calcified root canals, persistent tooth pain or infection, root canal retreatment, cracked teeth and dental injuries, difficult-to-diagnose tooth pain, and endodontic surgery such as apicoectomy. We look for ways to treat the source of the problem and preserve your natural tooth whenever possible.

Root Canal Care That Considers Your Comfort

Specialist treatment should come with clear answers and a team that listens. Dr. Borukhova and the Gentle Touch team explain what they find, discuss your options, and help you feel prepared for treatment. Nitrous oxide is available if you would like additional support feeling relaxed. Consultations are available in English and Russian.

Endodontist Serving Long Island, Nassau County, Queens, and Brooklyn

Gentle Touch Endodontics is located in Williston Park and welcomes patients from Long Island, Nassau County, Queens, and Brooklyn. If you are looking for an endodontist for root canal treatment, retreatment, or a second opinion, we are ready to help.

Learn about emergency root canal and endodontic care, explore our endodontic services, or read when to see an endodontist.