Right at the center of your tooth is a collection of soft tissues, nerves, and blood vessels called the dental pulp. It’s housed in a space called the pulp chamber. The pulp chamber has channels or root canals extending into the tooth root. The dental pulp tissues extend into these root canals, providing nutrition to the tooth, which is essential while it is developing. Once a tooth is fully developed, it can survive without the dental pulp but is called a ‘non-vital’ tooth because it is essentially dead inside.