Patient Question:Disease:Child caries Description:7 years old child, but no pain, no treatment, the dentist asked for root canal. Hope to provide help:Doctor, hello, the child’s upper grinding milk tooth decayed, September 30, 2015 took a film, said the decay is a little deep, but the child does not hurt, no other uncomfortable feeling, so do you need to do root canal treatment. Can I just fill the tooth without root canal? Thank you! Reply from the Department of Pediatric Dentistry of the Dental Hospital: Hello! The necessity of root canal treatment is determined by the condition of the tooth, serious apical inflammation of the pulp will affect the development of permanent tooth replacement, when the inflammation of the pulp can take the best solution is to carry out root canal treatment, rather than the subjective will to choose the treatment plan, so the specific situation should be judged according to the affected tooth. Pain is only an indicator that the inflammation is acute and not an indicator of the presence or absence of inflammation.