root canal

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When we're sitting in the dentist's chair waiting for a painful root canal, we wish we were anywhere but there.
当我们坐在牙医的椅子上等待一次痛苦的根管治疗时，我们希望自己在其他任何地方而不是这里。
Admitting that the bank bail-out was “as popular as a root canal”, he vowed to take on lobbyists who were “already trying to kill” financial reform.
他承认对银行的注资拯救“犹如牙根管手术一样普遍”，并且发誓要应对那些“已经蠢蠢欲动试图破坏”金融改革的游说者。
“If you’re going through something unpleasant—like a root canal—the smell of baby powder will help you feel as if time were going by faster by up to 57 percent,” reports Esquire.
根据艾斯快尔的报道说，“如果你正在经历某种不愉快——比如说牙根管治疗——闻一闻婴儿爽身粉的味道能够让你觉得时间跑的速度快了高达57%。”

Peter, a lean man with fair hair, sat stiffly near the front: he looked like somebody anticipating a root canal.
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Most people would rather have a root canal than shop for dental, health or any other kind of medical insurance.
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a treatment for a tooth where the infected roots are removed and replaced by a hard substance

the passage in the root of a tooth through which its nerves and blood vessels enter the pulp cavity

根管
Objective: To study the root canal therapy of periapical cyst treatment effect.
目的:探讨根管治疗术治疗根尖囊肿的效果。
根管治疗