Shall I just give up and have this tooth out ?

[gingeroots]

Upper molar with full gold crown .
Suspected cracked root .
Suspected calcification of nerve .

Dental hospital recommend that my dentist removes gold crown and checks if root is cracked .
My dentist says this is a no go as removal will break tooth and he is saying root filling through crown and then "we'll see " if root is cracked .
Also saying that it's possible nerve is calcified ( hosp didn't mention this ) and that this may prevent root filling .

We didn't discuss removal but I'm wondering if I shouldn't ask for that ...

[crazycarol]

I had an upper molar give me grief. Had a filling, lost a filling, had it refilled. Had an abcess, took antibiotics, went away (for a while). Had a "niggle". Dentist did RCT, "niggle" didnt really go. Had more RCT.

Then as it wasn't right decided on extraction. Dentist said the took "broke up" as it was extracted and there was puss around the root (sorry TMI). Wish I had gone with extraction to begin with. It would have saved me ££ and a year and a half of bother.

[gingeroots]

Upper molar .
Yes has been causing pain for over a year ( dentist originally thought sinus ) has flared up 2 or 3 times and pain moves up into excruiciating ( sorry about sp ).

[lambethlil]

Where is the tooth and does it hurt?

[gingeroots]

I've not decided >>typical emiticon

[Shesparkles]

I have a problem with a tooth that's niggled away of a few years. I was discussing options with my dentist and he was saying that dentists are going away from the previous idea of saving a tooth no matter what, because of the recent advances in alternatives, such as implants and good bridgework.
This has meant that instead of me having yet more root canal work (which is unlikely to be successful anyway due to weird roots)'and cut my losses and get rid of the tooth then get a bridge 6 months after I've had the extraction.
OK so it's going to cost a few quid, but over the last few years it greets like I've thrown good money after bad on this tooth, so this should be an end to it

[Willabywallaby]

Anyway back to the OP, what did you decide?

[Willabywallaby]

Does he think fluoride is the work of the devil too?

[Willabywallaby]

I'd never heard of him, but then my husband's uncle is an endodontic specialist

[AKissIsNotAContract]

Ted: since Hal Huggins has an axe to grind about white fillings, any metal in the mouth including crowns and amalgam fillings, and root canal treatment, the only option left for his followers is to have teeth extracted when they could be restored. This idea is ridiculous.

[Willabywallaby]

He was rambling on about blood microscopy and stuff so must have missed that bit, but wasn't that what I suggested

[gingeroots]

That's a bit uncalled for ted .
Willaby had already suggested extraction as the only alternative to RCT ( as indeed had others ) so possibly they assumed that your link would suggest an ALTERNATIVE.

[Willabywallaby]

Well that was a waste of 7 mins, didn't get an alternative to RCT.

[Startailoforangeandgold]

I'd give it the boot.

Root canals ate painful and expensive.

Sticks tongue in £100 gap (I was a student I was broke.) I sodding well wish I hadn't bothered it got infected and had to come out.

I've had the gap 22 years and it doesn't bother me at all.

[Afsana1]

I have been through this the thought of root canal terrifies me. I had 2 root canals done and had gold cap. I was ok for awhile but then it came back and god did it hurt dentist said you can try root canal again I said no and had two teeth take out it was the best decision I made. It is your choice but you need to think about how many root canals can you go through. Good luck xx

[Willabywallaby]

I couldn't wade through the whole article, but when Huggins finds a way to eliminate bacteria from our mouths then he will eliminate it from the periodontal ligament etc etc.

And knowledge is not always power.

The only alternative to an RCT is an extraction.

[AKissIsNotAContract]

That's scare mongering. Hal Huggins is generally discredited by most dentists. According to him your gold crown is killing you anyway.

Your options are to have the root canal treatment or extract the tooth. If it were my tooth I'd go for the root treatment. If the root is shown to be fractured when the crown is drilled through then you'll have no choice but to have it extracted.

[gingeroots]

I've skim read this and it all sounds dreadful .

Is there an alternative to a root filling if the nerve is rotting - I didn't see one mentioned ?

[gingeroots]

Thanks .

[Willabywallaby]

Yes the same thing!

[gingeroots]

The dentist is planning to drill through the crown - will that be the same as opening the tooth up ?

Thank you by the way for replying .