Hi, so I have a very problematic tooth. It started a few months back, hurting when biting down, some sensitivity but not all the time, tooth just didn't feel right, mentioned it at check up on 14th April, dentist said thought they may be a vertical crack, keep an eye on it. Returned 7 days later as had awful pain in the tooth, he said he thought they were a crack but explained that they are hard to detected so said he would put some medicine in and see if it settles down and would ring the day after; he didn't but in fairness it had settled a lot - two weeks later the pain came back, rang dentist who phoned back and said he would finish the root canal he had started, said all looked good and see me at next check up and gave me some antibiotics, again two weeks later the pain returned and a lump at top of my gum appeared, if I touched my cheek the pain in the tooth was so painful, retuned to dentist he took an X-ray said root looks short then said no actually it looks ok, I'll give you some antibiotics as we haven't tried that I said I had some previously - then he said if it doesn't settle I would need to be referred to a specialist at a cost of £500+ or extraction. It's a upper 4 so in smile line but the antibiotics aren't working and I'm sick of this pain, I can't afford an implant and would have to put the treatment on my credit card as I don't have any spare money at the moment and I also think with it being so problematic and root canal not worked first time and success rate not always good I think I will have it extracted and a small one tooth denture put in ? As anyone had an NHS one tooth denture ? And if so was everything ok or would I better off going private for one. I have also had to go private for a mouth guard as I have mentioned it over the past few years as I smack them together in my sleep but he never answers me - thank you for reading