Yeah Sadie, they acted like me wanting the tooth gone was ridiculous, my first dentist actually laughed at me when I suggested it! It wasn't until I cried at an appointment with my new dentist that she caved and reffered me to an oral surgeon for extraction. My dentist was so dramatic saying, "it is so sad that we couldn't save the tooth...i wanted to save the tooth...i tried to save it...this is such a SHAME...i wish there was something else i could do...to have you get it pulled is such a loss...it is devastating really...i wish there was another way..."