President Biden had a root canal on Sunday and can endure a follow-up root canal process on Monday due to continued tooth ache, the White House introduced.

A White House official mentioned Mr. Biden, 80, is not going to be put underneath anesthesia “and the 25th Amendment will not be invoked.” The twenty fifth Amendment gives that the president is to inform congressional leaders if he's briefly “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office,” through which case Vice President Kamala Harris would turn out to be performing president.

Typically for root canal, sufferers obtain a neighborhood anesthetic to numb the realm across the tooth or tooth concerned within the process.

Mr. Biden started experiencing dental ache in his decrease proper premolar on Sunday, in response to a letter from White House doctor Kevin O’Connor.

The Presidential Dental Team from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center carried out X-Rays on Sunday and concluded {that a} root canal was probably the most acceptable motion. An preliminary root canal was carried out on Sunday, in response to Dr. O’Connor’s letter.

“The president tolerated the procedure well,” the White House doctor says in a letter made public. “There were no complications.”

But the president nonetheless had ache Monday morning, which was “anticipated,” the physician mentioned. The “endodontal specialty team” will full the president’s root canal Monday on the White House.

Mr. Biden was scheduled to host faculty sports champion groups from this previous season on the White House on Monday. The occasion, dubbed “College Athlete Day,” is now being hosted as a substitute by Ms. Harris.

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