While dentists may perform their fair share of root canal procedures on human patients, you’d be hard-pressed to find one who has carried out a root canal on a fully-grown African elephant. Regardless ...

An elephant in India has undergone a root canal to relieve pain from a longtime tusk injury. The elephant had 0.5 kg (about 1.1 lb) of flesh that grew within the fractured tooth removed prior to the ...

(WHDH) — 30-people in Colombia worked on an elephant’s root canal on a cracked tusk. Tantor, the elephant, was operated on at the Barranquilla Zoo by American and Colombian doctors. The zoo launched a ...

COLOMBIA (WFLA/CNN) – You can’t exactly bring an elephant to the dentist, so the dentists went to help out one gentle giant at the Barranquilla Zoo in Colombia. It took almost 30 people to give the ...