A few days ago my husband started complaining about some tooth and facial pain. I did the tap test and found that it was tooth one that was causing the pain. I thought it might have been tooth 2, because it's a root canaled tooth, but the feedback from the tap test was tooth 1. Tooth 1 has an old, large, amalgam filling and I thought maybe the tooth had cracked as many amalgam filled teeth do.

My husband calls the dentist and they get him right in. They do a bite wing, hot-cold test (he passed) and tell him that in fact, it is tooth 2 that's causing him the pain. From what he's telling me, they've told him that the 'bone' never grew back after the root canal. This confuses me because they don't normally remove the apex of the tooth on a root canal from my understanding.

They also told him, his tooth pain is likely a sinus infection. He's been having sinus issues, but we normally try and fight these things naturally with Vit C. They told him he has large sinus cavities so if he would plan to remove tooth 2, it would have to be done by an oral surgeon.

Bryanna, could you please shed some light on this issue?

PS There are plans for both me and my husband to get all of our amalgams and root canals out but it's going to take some time. He has 4 root canals and I have 2. He has 1 amalgam left as do I.

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