Bryanna, thank you for looking at the images.

Yes, other people have mentioned the wisdom tooth remnant, which has been interpreted as another root tip (although it looks too wide to me).

Other people have also mentioned that the bone loss associated with #8 has spread and will potentially affect other teeth. When I had #8 pulled in September 2012, they added a bone graft or some kind of filler. Other than that procedure, I've put #8 and its neighbors on the back burner until I have a handle on this leaky #19 extraction site.

You said that you think #19 had a crown to root fracture. Would you look at the attached image? Does the yellow line I added correspond to what you think might be the fracture?

You also mentioned a slightly darkened area just below the gumline on the most recent xray (from last August). That was a very interesting observation. I wonder if you're not on to something there!

There are three things on the panorex I'd like to ask you about. Do you see the dark area under the molar roots on the right side of my mouth (left side of the image)? Notice how much darker it is compared to the same area on the left side. Does that mean anything to you? Is it something to worry about? (It's not an artifact unique to this image. The right side is darker in all the panorexes I've had.)

Do you see how the root channels from the extraction site appear to actually enter the mandibular canal? (This is not an optical illusion. It is evident from the slices of the CT scans.) Why didn't the infection from the original dental abscess go into the canal and travel somewhere else, such as the neck? Do you think that the dentist who extracted #19 would have seen that the channels entered the canal visually after he pulled the tooth, or would everything have been too bloody? What are the possible complications of infected roots impinging on the nerve canal?

Lastly, do you think the panorex indicates that the roots in my upper arch teeth go into my sinuses? I seem to have been blessed (or cursed) with particularly long roots.

Sorry to ask so many questions, but you've finally seen the pictures!

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